The story of Conradin in MAN’S WORLD Magazine. 1266, Bavaria. Conradin, heir of the House of Staufer, is 14. He has a dream: reclaim Rome, revive the glory of his ancestors. The Sybil tells him in a dream the attempt will fail. But not be in vain. He rides south, into history.

The bulk of America’s population lies within this green oval. If politicians secured the blessings of liberty to them and their posterity, they would be rewarded at the ballot box and in the annals of history beyond their wildest dreams.

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Please excuse, Mrs. MCC has been ATTACKED by allergies! We are moving this to next weekend. I might do a nationalism vs. globalism space tonight instead...we will see.

Joey's post on cultural homogeneity is interesting--you should read. I would add that it is interesting that social media's evisceration of concern for the local turns into a new quest to find belonging through a kind of radical fracturing into online niche "communities" which

Philosophers are the rarest human type. Most great books readers (rightly) admit that they aren't philosophers; if that is the case, what is it that prevents YOU, dear great books reader, from seeing the world as it is?

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Imagine a world in which the smug academics have to work hard to earn *you* as their student in order to earn their paycheck That’s the vision, the goal that some of us are working towards achieving daily

Homer has been a lifelong companion for me and a source of endless fascination. I am grateful for this. I therefore can heartily recommend Bowra's Homer (which I had never read until recently). It's a not-so-basic introduction by a very intelligent and sensitive modern reader.

This is a delightful essay on the Mona Lisa, wondering whether it actually deserves its fame. B.C Talaus finds that most of the ordinary explanations don’t really demonstrate why the non-specialist should care about it, but he offers a compelling reason for why we should.

Some practical advice on learning Greek.

How does the soul ascend to God? ➡️BIG NEWS: NEW PROJECT The The Culturist Evan Amato and I have teamed up to launch a new Substack: THE ASCENT. 🪜The Ascent will dive into mysticism, theology, and ancient texts — we’ll study the ideas, history, and revolutionary

Hey Friends, Thank you everyone who bought a book. It should be on the way to your trailer or mom's house or your probation officers or where ever you get your mail. IF you are one of the HUNDREDS of people who bought a special edition LICKED copy of Hollywood Samizdat (a

After writing / recording 150 MCC posts, I discovered that reading, thinking, and then writing was one of the best ways to become more fully human LLM's draft 0% of my content In Part 1 of a new series, I introduce what it looks like to study a Platonic dialogue (Euthyphro)

To become a poet, slow down. That’s the aim: the radical, ruthless annihilation of haste. It is only in stretching time out that we can take in the wondrous.

"The Problem of Providence and Socrates" Here's a draft of a paper I've written for an upcoming edited volume. It condenses a lot of work I've done on Pre-Socratic poetry and philosophy and on Plato. Here's an outline, for a sense of the range of thinkers/texts covered:

I just had a friend (college roommate) pass on after a long battle with cancer (he was an oncologist, ironically) He was, like all of us, imperfect, but unlike most of us, he knew where to seek perfection. He was one of the first really strong Christians I knew and his faith

On one hand, our social context is our educator in a good way, and on the other, it is a constraint on our quest for truth. Our social circumstances educate us in myriad ways, but one of its most useful, is that it teaches us how to get along with others. If you don't have any

Yes. If slop is the archetypal yeastiness or obese person lecture, then the great poem is the rippling chad, who possesses muscles or lines, each of which is beautiful and distinct from one another.

A lovely vitalistic poem that could have been written by Teddy Roosevelt: