Yee Loi / Ramones / Rock 'n' Roll High School youtu.be/b_P3RWAWYL4 via YouTube

A Pulitzer for Duke Ellington! John McWhorter of the The New York Times: "I’m hoping it stimulates a big, beautiful noise that undoes this wrong." Was racism involved in the Pulitzer decision-making? Ted Gioia takes up the cause. stanford.io/3RTM5Ld #duke #DukeEllington

Check out this book edited by my friend Cynthia Haven, due to land on shelves next year. It's likely to become the standard gateway for novices to enter the work of René Girard.

electricity passport coming soon

My friend George Dunn is looking for submissions for one of his volumes on pop culture & philosophy--on Joker! pomocon.substack.com/p/about-a-volu…

Festschrift for Laurence Lampert. Available now for pre-order. amazon.com/New-Politics-P…

I have four first edition books by Nietzsche (auf Deutsch, natürlich) that I'm interested in selling. Prospective buyers can message me.

兔年快乐！Happy Year of the Rabbit!

I've written that René Girard's ideas should be as familiar as those of Marx & Freud, whom many cite w/o having read. RG's ideas are certainly more observable & practical, with immediate applications for our lives and our world. We're going to make it happen!

So excited to announce that our new single “Dad’s Money” is being released on the 24th of August!! Great news, you can now presave this using this link: os.fan/yeeloi/presave…

Coming soon from my friend, mentor, and colleague Laurence Lampert: Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche (The Beijing Lectures): Philosophy and Its Poetry. Beautifully written and brimming with startling insights into the spiritual history of the West. pauldrybooks.com/products/strau…

René Girard is having a moment, thanks in part to the work of Cynthia L. Haven. I had the joy of talking with her about Girard, exile poets Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky, C.S. Lewis’s wife Joy Davidman, and more. Here’s our conversation 👉 millersbookreview.com/p/cynthia-l-ha…

A terrific interview with René Girard's biographer Cynthia Haven Cynthia L. Haven. She also discusses her work on Czesław Miłosz, Joseph Brodsky, and Joy Davidman, wife of C.S. Lewis. millersbookreview.com/p/cynthia-l-ha…

Punk Rock Christmas 🎄 ✨🤘🏻🎸

Go listen to ghost of vegas songwhip.com/yeeloi/ghost-o…

My new piece in UnHerd -

My new piece in UnHerd on the meaning of the revival of Canadian nationalism. unherd.com/2025/03/canada…