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Tolkien art literature
BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
art film Solaris Tarkovsky Lem
Books

SPOTLIGHT: Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (1961; 1970, Faber & Faber) & Andrei Tarkovsky (1972, Mosfilm)

April 28, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
Labatut Neumann Maniac
BooksReviews

REVIEW: The MANIAC – Benjamin Labatut (Penguin, 2023)

February 22, 2025 Merri
Tolkien art literature
BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
art film Solaris Tarkovsky Lem
Books

SPOTLIGHT: Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (1961; 1970, Faber & Faber) & Andrei Tarkovsky (1972, Mosfilm)

April 28, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
Tolkien art literature
BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
AI NPC machine learning
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society

December 16, 2023 Merri
COVID conspiracy theory
ClassicCommentary

The Inverted Conspiracy Theory

August 7, 2021 Merri
Devil's Pleasure Palace Michael Walsh
BooksOld StuffReviews
June 6, 2017 Merri

The Devil’s Pleasure Palace (Michael Walsh – 2015, Encounter Books)

If there is allowed only one word to describe the Left, the wanton adherence to hypocrisy, self-destruction, entropic egalitarianism, aimless

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Old Stuff
May 26, 2017 Merri

Anarchy in the Divided Kingdom

Let’s say you’re a young girl and you just got out of a great concert put on by one of

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Legutko democracy liberalism
BooksOld StuffReviews
May 23, 2017 Merri

The Demon in Democracy (Ryszard Legutko – 2016, Encounter Books)

Escaping from Soviet rule in Poland during the 1970s, Ryszard Legutko landed in the liberalized sphere of NATO-defended Europe only

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Old Stuff
May 19, 2017 Merri

Political Centrism Is Not A Thing

“Nah, dude, I’m a centrist.”  The unamusing smugness of the statement belched out of your friend’s lips is enough to

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BooksOld StuffReviews
May 16, 2017 Merri

After the Natural Law (John Lawrence Hill – 2016 Ignatius Press)

The last ten years has seen the publication of a plethora of neo-scholastic thought made accessible and available to the

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Old Stuff
May 12, 2017 Merri

R.I.P. Objective Journalism, Never – 2017

Lament the fall of journalism!  That such a great, magnificent field of human achievement has been corrupted—ah, what a shame! 

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Old Stuff
May 9, 2017 Merri

French Election? Business As Usual

So, to nobody’s surprise, Marie Le Pen lost the French election pretty hard.  It was cast as part three (or

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Old Stuff
May 5, 2017 Merri

Conservatism and Its Discontents

The American Right has never been the most organized crowd around.  Uniting a broad demographic of laymen, pundits, politicians, and

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Old Stuff
May 2, 2017 Merri

Korn’s Lyrics Are Better Than Slam Poetry

So let’s say you’re fourteen, bullied in school, have a relatively easy home life, don’t have much need to work

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Old Stuff
April 25, 2017 Merri

Bill Nye is a Moron

Say you’re in the mood for some delicious nostalgia, and your doctor has told that you aren’t ingesting enough madness. 

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