Recently Ben Shapiro added another hot take to his history of bad media analyses when he went after It’s a Wonderful Life. He asserted that Mr. Potter had the right of it: lending should be run as Potter ran it,
My first cuisine blog Today’s a short one and quite divorced from my usual content. No matter. Today, I go into a little bit of odd knowledge I have, including the two foods that stick the longest on the taste
The Second Element: Mechanistic Metaphysic The materialist understanding of the universe is the most familiar iteration of this mindset to us moderns. We live in a culture which, at least pro forma, asserts that all reality is matter-in-motion, with each
The tradition of folk-magic, of ‘superstition,’ and of magic in general is old and endemic to humanity. Its philosophical bones appear in modernity, in the medieval era, and in ancient times, in materialism, in mysticism, in simple superstition. To make
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book II: Of the Rights of Things commences with a brief discussion of the origin of property. Therein he states, quite rightly, that the Dominion Mandate of Genesis 1:28 is “the only true
The prefaces to this consideration of The Princess and Curdie are two. First, I must highly commend the book to you, together with its prequel. MacDonald is a skilled teller of tales and includes many gems of insight in his
You become what you do. We become what we practice. My life is, from the eternal perspective, a cavalcade of actions, thoughts, and desires in sequence, the past forming the present forming the future, all in call-and-response to the world
Will AI replace your doctor? We tried with lawyers, which didn’t go well (judges don’t appreciate the hallucinated citations). We’re dead-set on trying with artists, and the result is the mass sloppification of the internet. Why not try with doctors?
As per last week, the universal man does exist, for we must have a universal which the word ‘man’ refers to. The universal man does not exist, inasmuch as (contra liberalism) men are not interchangeable without regard for their history
We can take the Bible’s course instead. For the curious, an immensely updated and re-worked version of this is available here. Men like Ben Shapiro occasionally come out with genius statements about the evils of retirement. What everybody hears (and