March 28, 2022

Thirsting for seriousness in the long-form podcast

It is now common to see lengthy presentations covering deep subjects on YouTube and on various podcasts.  It is also now common that millions, not thousands, of people are watching.  Five-minute TV interviews with experts on vario...

March 22, 2022

The Benedict opt-out: Creating a principled parallel society

Rod Dreher, in The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, suggests that we who are abused by anti-capitalist, globalist censors opt out of any leftist structures that reveal even a whiff of the noxious decomp...

March 19, 2022

Return of the Automat?

During a recent nostalgic discussion of Philadelphia and New York's Horn & Hardart Automat restaurants, there was a good bit of talk about what a great thing it would be to revive the unique serverless windowed eateries that boasted...

March 13, 2022

Where have all the love songs gone?

I got to thinking, where are the real love songs?  Blaise Pascal said, “It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.” Where are the love songs in ...