Here’s a paper I wrote a while back on Plato’s account of poetry and art. I think it would do a lot of good if we recovered this understanding of art’s role in eduction and character formation. open.substack.com/pub/ianjmcmill…

Any attempt to pursue a Christian America will fail if a faithful, biblical, worshipful body of Christian churches does not precede it.

C. R. Wiley It’s all in Plato ;)

There are at least two aspects to a work of art: 1) the technical or artistic quality, and 2) the substance of the artwork itself. Many works of art are “pleasing” or “aesthetic,” that is crafted excellently and with great skill, but all the while the work is an object of

"I like it" or "I feel nice feelings when consuming this" can't merely be one's defense of movie or book or painting.

These people will posit literally any absurd nonsense instead of just accepting God

The irate reaction to Will Spencer reveals to us that only one group is allowed to engage in pattern recognition.

Burn this into your brain. The goal needs to be re-building the kind of nation that can survive the default when it comes, not if. Short of making Donald Trump caesar, it is coming. All our politics must account for this fact. Do you want 100 million third worlders here when

Trump took a bullet for you Elon said he wanted to replace you with cheap foreign labor I trust Trump more than Elon

All this reminds us of something Nayib Bukele posted - kings must rule, not merchants.

Let me explain why we have to choose between the migration agenda and the budget situation. Congress hates you. They don’t represent you. They exist to vote for pork, for fraud, for money flows that benefit various special interests, corporations, and nefarious interests. The

All this 17th dimension chess is making my head hurt.

Wait. You’re telling me the immigrant dual citizen mercenary who voted for democrats his entire life isn’t on board with the America First movement?

Honestly kudos to Apple for keeping their DEI promises well into 2025 and employing a 100% blind design team

give this the award for best x post

Political science doesn't govern health—which would be tyrannical or stupid—but is authoritative over not just ped-iatrics and ped-iatricians but over doctors and the art of medicine itself (iatrike). Otherwise beastliness and barbarism. All in Aristotle.

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”

God will not be mocked

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