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‘Some Great Thing’: Maclin Horton’s Memoir
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (295+ words) You want me to show you uplifting, beautiful things to counter the gloom? You got it! Mac says the first beautiful thing he ever saw was a mallard duck, with its lustrous green head, brought in by the men from…...
Shawn Ryan On Spiritual Risk Of Psychedelics
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (99+ words) roddreher.substack.com Shawn Ryan On Spiritual Risk Of Psychedelics And: Why The AfD?; Rave In The Nave; Crazy Clancy Jury; AI Doomer; Aztecs Part II The popular podcaster Shawn Ryan has the traditionalist Catholic Cardinal Raymond Burke on for…...
The Zoomerwaffen & Forgetting
1+ week, 3+ day ago (475+ words) From the US Holocaust Museum, this reminder: I post that because I received this from a Catholic priest friend yesterday, who watched The Fog Of War, the Errol Morris documentary about Robert McNamara and Vietnam. I share it with you…...
Dolly: Suffering, Compassion, And Resilience
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1646+ words) My body shuts down when it’s under deep stress. I was so shell-shocked by it all that I fell asleep on the couch at 5pm Friday, and woke up at 5am Saturday. Unless I dodge a bullet this time, I will be…...
Well, Goodbye, Dolly
2+ week, 3+ day ago (81+ words) Rod Dreher's Diary And: Christian Smugglers; Source Of Right-Radicals; Mousetopia; Coonasses In Space When the news of Dolly Parton’s death broke yesterday, a number of people (myself included) said that she was the last person left in America loved by…...
The NEET Army: What Young Men Face Today
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1045+ words) Over the weekend, one of you readers sent me this piece from Virtue Online, a website for orthodox global Anglicanism. It’s written pseudonymously; it was published there because the writer is a young conservative Anglican, and though this has nothing…...
Alabama’s Local Heroes
3+ week, 1+ day ago (821+ words) My friend Lee last night took me to a town hall meeting in the small town of Westover (pop. 2000). About 300 people — that’s over 10 percent of the town — gathered in an Assemblies of God church to meet with four men representing…...
Emilee Hackney's Appalachian Life -- And Exile
3+ week, 4+ day ago (81+ words) Rod Dreher's Diary Emilee Hackney's Appalachian Life -- And Exile And: My Appalachian Friends; Back to Blood Ten years ago this summer, J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy burst onto the world, and became a publishing phenomenon (this July 2016 interview was what sent the…...