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August 31, 2023 Kauffman in Scranton An essay by Bill Kauffman always triggers my forefinger. He's a man with a robust right hemisphere, or at least a severe distrust of his left and the conditions/presumptions created by a culture of left-hemisphere dominance. In this piece, Kauffman expresses

July 31, 2023 Monday Column This week's Monday Column borrows from Taki Mag's feature, "The Week that Perished," which offers aggressive and humorous prose on the week's news items. "The Month that Perished" offers (slightly) aggressive and (hopefully) humorous prose

June 30, 2023 BYCUAmaze your friends this weekend with this drinking newsEric ScheskeThe Daily Eudemon June 28, 2023 An Addendum, of Sorts, to an Earlier Feature Essay Trying to Figure Out How We Got Into These Rationalist CocoonsNo one can reason us out of our [rationalist] pods because we didn’

May 31, 2023 The Boromir Option It appears Patrick Deneen has rejected the Benedict Option in favor of the Boromir Option, with special disdain for Albert Jay Nock's observation that a man performs his societal role by improving himself, without taking the reigns of power, just as Socrates

April 30, 2023 My New Favorite Podcast? I listened to Russell Brand's Stay Free yesterday. I came because he was interviewing Iain McGilchrist. I stayed because Brand is smart (I always figured he was a clown), fast, and funny. I've only listened to the McGilchrist episode

March 31, 2023 Brews You Can Use Reminder: No BYCU next Friday: Good Friday BYCUI Thought Opera Singers are Required to be, ahem, Robust Katherine Jenkins stuns in a black cocktail dress at her gin launchThe opera singer, 42, put on a glamorous display for the launch of her own

February 28, 2023 Feast Day of St. Oswald Actually, that's not true, but the poor guy, who Butler tells us was "endowed with a very rare and beautiful form of body," is feasted on February 29th, so TDE is doing its part here to remedy the

January 30, 2023 Weekly Column is Up Don’t be That Guy“That guy” is always a left hemisphere guyThe Daily EudemonTDE As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Monday column will occasionally be a repeat of the Saturday newsletter. I thought it would happen only once or twice

December 31, 2022 T.S. Eliot: Murderer? Matthew Walther claims T.S. Eliot killed poetry (well, finished the slaying . . . it wasn't all TSE's fault). Perhaps. I think McGilchrist would argue the left hemisphere's approach--logic, dislike of metaphor, emphasis on calculation--killed it. No matter, the