An Interim Posting

Due to certain shifts in various schedules, our conversation with Tom Holland (the historian, not Spider Man) will appear later in July; but we thought we should catch up in the interval, with one another and with the circumstanding world. Our conversation ranged far and wide, covering such topics as our deplorable indolence, Gene’s forthcoming book Automated Vistas, Thomism, the nature of capitalism, Rad-Trad-Catholicism, cannabis as opposed to bourbon, bourbon as opposed to cannabis, the misnomer “post-industrial”, Greeks, Nigerian Greeks, Kenyan Greek Demigoddesses, Homer, Helen of Troy, the infinitely repellant J. D. Vance, Vance’s ingenuity in finding his way to Catholicism while scrupulously avoiding any contact with Christianity, the hyenas of Brideshead Revisited, why so many culture warriors are so uncultured, why so many self-appointed champions of Western Civilization are so eerily ignorant of Western Civilization, Lupita N’yongo’s entrancing smile, ethno-nationalism, the Kalevala, the nature of myth, why DBH blew his stack or flipped his wig or lost his cool at Jonathan Pageau, THC, the unbearable lightweightness of Jonathan Pageau’s mind, racism, cosmopolitanism, and much much much more…