My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, With a heart weighed down by sorrow and righteous anger, I join the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, in mourning the brutal massacre that took place in Benue State, Nigeria. Nearly 200 souls—many of them our own brothers and sisters in Christ,

The Valley of the Gods at Moonset.

Catherine Austin Fitts has been talking about the land sell-offs for a while. Has nothing to do with housing.

Shockingly true to the extent it should horrify us when anyone at all falls through the cracks - realizing just how little it takes to encourage the growth of goodness.

Some people are desperately working to make the whole world into something cheap and fake and dull and bad. The rest of us want, mostly, to be left happily alone with the books and mountains and roses and paintings and one another.

I think this is right.

Emphatically true.

I can't believe how much this kind of thing is becoming a norm everywhere. Even much worse just the past year.

Somehow seems relevant today. (From my new book, The Locust Years.)

This can be you too, if you simply *read a lot of good books*.

Soulbloom

The Instagrammable aesthetics of "tradwives" and "trad husbands" is nothing but a simulacrum made for consumption. *** My grandmother was poor growing up. She spent most of her life working in the fields, caring for her children and maintaining their home. She led what would be

thinking about the time I ran for eighth grade class president and lost to a guy who promised ice cream parties and the abolition of homework

The life we desire is often the product of mimesis. There is another life, though, that calls to us—which breaks through the mimetic noise—if you have the courage to listen.

Adding typos to my emails so they know I'm human

pro tip: you can basically visit >100 cities per day by asking chatgpt to summarise them for you

🎯The life of the mind is about the pursuit of truth, for its own sake and come what may. When it's put at the service of something else, such as partisan politics or the goal of “branding” oneself as an “influencer,” it is quickly corrupted and yields only hackwork and sophistry