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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

November 30, 2022 Beautiful (if hard to read) Tridentine liturgical calendar: https://i.redd.it/td4v1yswj33a1.jpg "Outside the Modern Limits." The Best Saturday Morning NewsletterDive Bar Patrons Understand More than College ProfessorsA sample from “Outside the Modern Limits.” This is the kind of content you’re missing

October 31, 2022 Happy Halloween The Monday Column Solon, the Father of Democracy, was a Man of the Tao💡Solon opened Athens to true order: the transformative order found through the Tao. Ancient Athens in the 600s BC Ancient Athens didn’t have a king. It was ruled by nine

September 30, 2022 The Art of Ghosting If you think I've written about this topic before, you're not wrong. The Art of GhostingDon’t Tell ’em Goodbye!The Daily EudemonTDE September 29, 2022 TDE Needs it for 3.0 . . . Apparently Click here to subscribe to TDE.

The original TDE blog format. Stacked, sundry, and short for swift scanning since 2004.

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June 30, 2022 Classical Education is Coming Back It must be "Classics Thursday." The Washington Examiner has run a great opinion piece about the salubrious return of classical education, with a GKC kicker. What is now commonly referred to as a “classical” or “liberal arts” education has been

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