Do I dare to eat a peach? You bet! Classical teacher, Co-host of the Close Reads podcast
Pensacola, FL
Joined March 2012
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Let's post this again. When someone tells you that the Enlightenment thinkers they don't like are "counter-enlightenment", they are coping for the simple fact that reason is not sufficient, which is why the Enlightenment contains both sides, a reason side, and a "magic" side. It is both sides of Newton, his "scientific" AND his "alchemical" side. It is both sides of Descartes, the "cogito" side and his affiliations with Rosicrucians. Occultism and 18th century secret societies like Freemasonry are the "mystical" side of the Enlightenment, which is why they permeate the revolutions and are found so prominently among the Founding Fathers. The modern world, and especially America, cannot be understood without seeing these two aspects as the two sides of a single coin.
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A message from those trapped at Burning Man has just been released:
"They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. We cannot get out. A shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming!"
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This is your periodic reminder that a Ph.D. does not convey universal expertise
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As a historically Christian institution or denomination, you may decide it is _right_ to adopt the exact same positions as dominant secular powers in business, academia, and entertainment. But please don't act like doing so is _courageous_.
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To Prevent Their Kids From Being Socially Awkward And Weird, More Parents Opting To Homeschool
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No. Wrong. You can't get a "good job" if you've corrupted yourself. It's not possible. Think about it.
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The @steak_umm account’s take on the best way to explain science is making a lot of sense and what the hell did I just type
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As always, proud to publish work by my man @_SeanJohnson, this time considering the great Robert Capon whose 95 birthday just passed.
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If they try to cancel "A Confederacy of Dunces" because of confederacy, I'm going to come out swinging a scimitar.
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My man @_SeanJohnson and I put together five recommendations for books about movies. There are so many books we could have chosen, but these five seem right for this particular moment:
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It's #WorldBookDay! We're celebrating by giving you the chance to win this stunning stack of Folio books - each one signed by their author or illustrator 🎉 Follow and RT by midnight Sunday 8 March for your chance to win! foliosociety.com
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@_SeanJohnson on @KSPrior's new editions of HEART OF DARKNESS & SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: "Prior articulates a Christian mode of reading that [approaches] any work of literature on its own terms, as a testament to the nature of man, the world, & their maker." tinyurl.com/qu9wn8u
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...I feel a certain mistrust of the desire to be well-informed; it strikes me that far too many people are anxious to substitute ideas about poetry for the experience of possessing some poem in itself.--#RichardWilbur
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In many ways CLT is a data company as we now have millions of unique data points offering insight into the academic ability of thousands of students.
One painfully obvious insight;
The vast majority of homeschool students have received an exceptional education.👩🎓
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This by @_SeanJohnson on two new collections of letters from Flannery O'Connor is great.
They "are a corrective to the common notion that O’Connor was a lone Catholic in a Christ-haunted South. It was not Catholics she was cut off from, but thinkers."
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If you read Russell Kirk, Wendell Berry, and Roger Scruton you will know what to think, and also how to.
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How Marcel Proust helped a prisoner of war endure a Soviet work camp . . . This is @_SeanJohnson on Jozef Czapski's Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp (which was published late last year by the inimitable @nyrbclassics).
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Jeanne Murray Walker isn't the first poet to discover that, "(the sonnet) form is a salve to the poet’s own inadequacies, the shortcomings and failures of vision common to the human condition." Read @_seanjohnson on her lovely new collection of poems.
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