Micah Mattix
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Taking a Break | The American Conservative
I’ll get right to it: After nearly eight years, I will be taking a break from Prufrock. The reason is simple: I have two books I need to work on, and it’s → Read More
Hindsight in Solzhenitsyn
Good morning. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “uses his characters to announce counterintuitive and unpopular truths,” Robert Kaplan writes in a survey of his WWI novels. We say hindsight is 20/20, but in reality it “reduces complexity to a counterfeit clarity”: > He replaces hindsight with a multitude of characters thinking and acting in the moment, so that at the beginning of World War I, ‘The clock… → Read More
The Failed Critique of Technopoly
Alan Jacobs explains why critics of a technological society have failed to find a wide audience → Read More
Art under Trump | The American Conservative
Good morning.The Drift asks this terrible question: “In 2016, grand predictions were issued about the fate of art under the new regime. The culture would suffer, dragged into the morass of Trump’s gaudy, ’80s flair . . . Four(ish) years later, it’s time to prematurely diagnose the cultural impact of the Trump presidency. Did anyone manage to eke out great art? Or did our collective single-minded… → Read More
The Decline of Poetry
The magazine’s February special issue sparks controversy → Read More
Double-Minded Mary | The American Conservative
Judith Hawley reviews a new book on the provocative and contradictory Mary Wollstonecraft → Read More
In Praise of the GameStop Boys
David Samuels can’t say enough good things about them → Read More
E.E. Cummings in Love and at War
A new biography offers insights into the early years of a valuable, albeit minor, 20th-century poet. → Read More
Dalí’s Dante | The American Conservative
Did you know that Salvador Dalí created 100 watercolor illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy? Ben Lima reviews a new exhibit in Dallas: > In 1951, when Dalí began . . . not only was he was already midway through the journey of his own life, but the torments and trials encountered by Dante and Virgil along their journey must have been powerfully recognizable to the restless and imaginative… → Read More
Difficult Subjects | The American Conservative
Are some people too morally monstrous to be the subject of a biography? Allen C. Guelzo reviews a new life of John. C. Calhoun. Without “biographies of difficult subjects,” he writes, “it might not be possible to write biographies at all”: > There are some biographies which are almost impossible to write. Sometimes this is because the subject is guilty of such monstrosities that the empathy… → Read More
The Accomplishment of Clive James
Ian Shircore revisits his life and work in Quadrant → Read More
Poetry’s Mistakes | The American Conservative
Why do critics insist on treating gaffes as other than what they are? → Read More
Canceling Chaucer | The American Conservative
Leicester University proposes axing medieval literature to replace it with courses on race and sexuality → Read More
The Individuality of Patricia Highsmith
In the Times Literary Supplement, Alex Clark takes stock of Patricia Highsmith at 100: > The secret of writing successfully, advised Patricia Highsmith (1921–95) in her slim guide Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966), is nothing more than individuality – ‘call it personality’ – and, since we are all individuals to begin with, this simply becomes a matter of finding a way to express… → Read More
Our Dystopian Future
Do technological advances cause more harm than good? → Read More
Everything Is Broken
Everything is broken, Alana Newhouse argues in Tablet. We live in a fast, unbounded, and entirely flat world: “Today’s revolution has been defined by a set of very specific values: boundarylessness; speed; universal accessibility; an allergy to hierarchy, so much so that the weighting or preferring of some voices or products over others is seen as illegitimate; seeing one’s own words and face… → Read More
The Problem with Technosolutionism
Technology is an amazing tool, but there are some problems it can’t solve → Read More
The Odd Epoch Times
The Epoch Times is a strange publication, but this is what freedom of the press looks like. → Read More
Remembering Roger Scruton
The philosopher died a year ago today. → Read More
Overrated Dunces | The American Conservative
John Kennedy Toole’s novel shouldn’t have won the Pulitzer Prize, Tom Bissell argues → Read More