Deal Hudson on How to Keep From Losing Your Mind
How to Keep From Losing Your Mind: Educating Yourself Classically to Survive Cultural Indoctrination. Deal W. Hudson. Charlotte: Tan Books, 2019. The onslaught of the constant…
The Uselessness of the Humanities
In the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde wrote: “All art is quite useless.” Wilde meant this not in a disparaging way but rather…
Bret Easton Ellis Shatters the Identarian Mold
How does a novelist fit into our currently polarized and divided world? Ideally, he has artistic “disinterestedness” that allows him to use his powers of observation in…
Can a Conservative Be Progressive?
Conservatives have always been portrayed as backward and unenlightened simpletons. This is true especially today because intellectual conservatives are being sidelined by identitarian and populist conservatism. This…
Political Meanings and Leanings of Twin Peaks
The Politics of Twin Peaks. Amanda DiPaolo and Jamie Gillies, eds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. American filmmaker, David Lynch, is mostly known for his strange and…
The Denial of Being: Ideology as False Metaphysics
Ideology is a highly misunderstood concept. People use it all the time to describe what, or more precisely, how they think despite the fact that they may…