(Note: At the end of this post are listening recommendations I’ll be updating periodically. Last updated September 30, 2019)) About six weeks ago I decided to abandon rock and roll music and listen to nothing but classical music for the…
Category: Culture
Thomas Storck writes with great clarity, and is able to make extremely complicated topics understandable to the average reader. In his collection of essays, From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond, he takes on one of the most complicated topics imaginable,…
You can’t spend 10 seconds on social media without coming across a post along the lines of, “So-and-so did such-and-such, and I am so outraged!” Public shaming occurs with similar frequency on our so-called news outlets, where the most popular…
(By Annie Holmquist. Republished from Intellectual Takeout.) I was at a wedding several weeks ago when I ran into a young man I hadn’t seen for a while. Naturally, I asked what he was up to. Was he finished with…
People think anybody can write, until they have to write something. With so many things in the world that suck, it’s astounding we’ve chosen to focus on straws. In the online world, we prioritize convenience over security, and sharing over…