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May 5, 2017

Modern Art Is Crap

If everything is art, then nothing is. All the great art of Western Civilization rests on the same underlying principle: through hard work, inspiration, and commitment to his craft, the artist produces

December 4, 2017

Book Review: The Heretics of St. Possenti

Few books have reached out, grabbed my attention, and held me captive like Rolf Nelson’s original The Stars Came Back. While the format was not what one would expect, being a screen play, the story was simply so good that it

October 23, 2017

What Books Are You Buying?

December 4, 2020

Friday Music: Bubba Ho-Tep

Art·Culture·Philosophy

The Nature of Beauty

June 6, 2026

The title of this lecture will, to a great majority of people, seem so forbidding that I feel it needs a justification, if not an apology. Art aims at creating the impression

Art·Culture

The Mikado: A Critical Appreciation

June 5, 2026

A composer reviews "England's supreme achievement in the sphere of opera."

Art·Culture

Movie Review: Topsy Turvy (1999)

April 25, 2026

The origin story of The Mikado, one of Gilbert and Sullivan's best loved operas.

Art·Culture·History

Niccolo Paganini

April 21, 2026

He was no "mere virtuoso"—there was a something in his playing that defied description or imitation...

Art·Culture·Fitness·History

The Forms and History of the Sword

October 2, 2023

There seems to be a culminating point not only in all human arts, but in the fashion of particular instruments. And it so happens that the preeminent and typical instruments of war

Art·Culture·History·Literature·Survival·Technology

Old Ways

July 19, 2023

Editor’s note: Originally posted by Last Redoubt at https://lastredoubt.substack.com/p/old-ways Paper has a lot of problems. It’s bulky. It catches fire. More to the point, if I want to send something on paper

Art·Culture·History·Religion

A Man of Culture

April 15, 2023

"He was at once a ferocious scoundrel, a clear-headed general, an adventurous politician, a careful administrator, a man of letters and of refined taste. "

Art·Literature·Religion

A Most Logical Conclusion To All Of The Unanswerable Questions Necessitated By Materialism Of Any Sort

February 19, 2023

For him Februaries came in two flavors: and the savory one he’d only tasted once. Food, like most Februaries, like this one, tasted like ash by that point. A heart is a

Art·Culture·History·Religion

Christmas Is Not Pagan

December 15, 2022

It’s that time of year again when good Christians honor Christ’s birth though all sorts of festivals and rituals with the big lead up to the 25th for many. It’s also that

Art·Culture·Philosophy

Why Beauty Matters

November 8, 2022

Because Google and BBC is asshole, I can only find this documentray from Roger Scruton on Vimeo now: https://vimeo.com/128428182, I downloaded a copy using youtube-dl. (I mean, clearly this is a threat

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