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Shortness Of Life

This short essay by Seneca, a Roman philosopher who lived during the 1st century, surprisingly has a lot of advice that remains applicable today. He main argument is that nature gives us plenty of...

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“No Law Can Be Sacred To Me But That Of My Nature”

Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the more famous American philosophers of the 19th century. He strongly influenced Henry David Thoreau, whose Walden took the idea of self-reliance to the literal while...

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Are You A Traditional Conservative But Don’t Realize It?

The other week someone called me a “traditional conservative.” I had to look it up to see what exactly he meant. The Wikipedia page was a bit messy but it did lead me to a dense essay called Classical...

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Why Tolstoy Rejected The Church

Everyone knows there are innumerable sects of Christianity. Yet nearly all denominations have some sort of church. Have you ever wondered, “Why do we need a church at all?” Leo Tolstoy was not only the...

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Machiavelli’s Comic Side

Everyone knows Niccolo Machiavelli’s (1469-1527) status as a seminal political theorist, but few are also aware that he was a first-rate playwright and satirist.  His play Mandragola (probably written...

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The First Red Pill Symposium

Two months ago I accepted the invitation of my good friend Giannozzo Strozzi for a celebration of his forty-second birthday at his family’s modest yet comfortable villa outside Spoleto, in Umbria.  He...

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The End Result Of Social Equality Is Tyranny

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a famous author and avowed socialist, also happened to pen a very clever critique of social equality. In the short sci-fi story Harrison Bergeron, Vonnegut portrays a world where...

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Sunday In The Park

Although it was written decades ago, Bel Kaufman’s Sunday in the Park remains just as relevant today, if not more so, to what it means to be a man. Her story centers on a family enjoying a Sunday...

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The Gift Of Information

Several generations ago, your great grandparents likely worked on a farm or in a dimly-lit urban factory after dropping out of school. They toiled doing menial labor for hours on end, kept a home...

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The Greatest Physician In History

Greatness is more often the result of years of incremental, patient labor than it is the sudden phosphorescence of a single incident.  Gradually but persistently, like the drips of water falling in a...

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Nothing Is Permanent

If we stop and observe those around us, we can see many unhappy people as we go through our daily lives. They fill a variety of archetypes, but a common thread is that their despair often derives from...

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Every Man Has A Breaking Point

Pressure reveals the man.  Take a man, any man, and subject him to extreme stress.  Subject him to sleep deprivation or fear, exhaustion, and the uncertainties of climate and personal safety, and you...

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I Got Suspended From Twitter After Receiving Death Threats

“OMG…you are the most disgusting, worthless piece of flesh to walk the internet. Please get hit by a bus, then backed over. actually, I hope the bus has a giant ad for tampons on it, and it runs over...

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Tuthmosis Swallows The Sun

Isaac Asimov’s 1941 short story Nightfall is considered one of the best in the canon of modern science fiction.  I have found it to be a useful parable in interpreting  the firestorm of hysteria...

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One Night Of Putting In Work In South America

Your date for the night flaked on you. A nice girl, but a bit timid. You could see it coming. It’s 8pm in a completely unfamiliar city, and you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat. It’s time once again...

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Men Should Not Help Sluts

Being out of town for two weeks I fell behind on the drama going on back home. I was, however, only slightly surprised when I showed up the house party and found an acquaintance I’m going to call...

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The Eternal Recurrence Of Internet Outrage

Conflagrations of internet outrage all seem to follow a predictable pattern.  A recent flare-up of outrage over a Twitter joke by comedian Stephen Colbert is just the latest manifestation of the...

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Mothers Have Become The Main Source Of Harm To Children

Back in 2013, Aurora Snow wrote a letter to her son. For those of you who don’t know who she is, Aurora Snow is a retired (aged out) hardcore porn actress with 384 films to her name. In fact, one of...

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Stacy’s Sculpture

Stacy’s parents knew she was something special — she displayed extraordinary artistic talents at a very young age. So as a child they bought her an array of creative material to work with. Paint for...

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Is Progress Real?

The Roman writer Aulus Gellius relates an amusing story in his book Attic Nights (Noctes Atticae, IX.4).  Returning from Greece to Italy and stopping at the port of Brundisium, he decided to visit the...

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