Cioran Boy Summer continues apace

This is the church that Pope Francis called every single night, even while in the hospital near the end of his life

This has never been more relevant

Blanche Sweet in Judith of Bethulia (1914), recreating the biblical story of Judith slaying the Assyrian general Holofernes

Truly. I can still remember my neighbor blasting “Lord of This World” on his parents’ ancient computer when we were 13 or 14. It somehow cut straight through the overwhelming spiritual deafness of suburban existence and probably set me on the path to the Church.

U of Chicago is going to merge humanities departments and downscale its language offerings in part because...the institution spent too much money on construction projects. Its endowment: over $10 billion. Are there any leaders in higher ed who *want* to save the humanities?

OMG 🥺

Emerson, circa 1847: "Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.” Now more than ever.

No one: A group of elite Pachomian monks living around Nag Hammadi in the 340s AD

I've said this for years: processed white bread, baby formula, no-fault divorce, technology in the classroom (that inescapable slogan of my childhood)—every bad idea starts up top but is abandoned by the time it makes its way down the class ladder.

"Fogeyism is above all an expression of impotence. There is no such thing as an artistic, creative, or generative Fogey: Fogeyism is morbidly parasitical on the past." | From the print issue.

Yes.

19th-century Russian novel ass headline

Miami be feeling like sodden and gonnorah