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September 2026

  1. the last post
  2. the disappeared
  3. the beginning of a story
  4. in these late days

August 2026

  1. Dear Walter
  2. undermining Babylon System
  3. what I want when I read
  4. horsewhipping Ruskin
  5. John Crowley
  6. Tom and Wystan
  7. reliable
  8. a conversation, presented without comment
  9. retribution and malice

July 2026

  1. strangers
  2. four big books
  3. with extreme taste
  4. the cost of having been everywhere
  5. I’ve been everywhere
  6. the three careers of Vida Chenoweth
  7. the Bible of course is terrific
  8. if we had but faith
  9. bad humanists

June 2026

  1. idea injection
  2. pot, kettle, soccer, football
  3. my back pages: an unwritten book
  4. Kołakowski on religion
  5. promises
  6. critical hope
  7. the repaganizing of fantasy
  8. two thoughts on Gallipoli
  9. update on my use of Claude
  10. heresies of form
  11. beat and groove

May 2026

  1. Auden’s faith
  2. Rowan Williams on solidarity
  3. “And I will undertake all these to teach”
  4. the unimaginable has occurred
  5. narrative and history
  6. deadlines
  7. Groundhog Day
  8. enough is enough?
  9. against persuasion?
  10. predictable
  11. Gilgamesh: A Review
  12. this post is obviously against all new things
  13. Arnhem, summarized

April 2026

  1. condition versus cause
  2. tools, jobs
  3. Powers
  4. the martyr’s crown
  5. pocket full of … kryptonite? sunshine?
  6. the rest is …
  7. redistributing
  8. comments

March 2026

  1. against AI?
  2. what’s in a name?
  3. Worf has feelings
  4. human and Hedgehog
  5. political Mottramism
  6. Darmok

February 2026

  1. Build
  2. The reading life, the reading death
  3. There but for the grace of Time go I
  4. Homer’s symmetries
  5. Faster
  6. church and cinema
  7. DIY culture
  8. The Picard Principle

January 2026

  1. excerpt from my Sent folder: Trek
  2. a crisis in my fandom history
  3. MacDonald and fantasy
  4. reorientation
  5. analog elites
  6. normalizing
  7. angels in the architecture
  8. Excerpt from my Sent folder: Markdown
  9. done, not done, undone
  10. design amnesia

December 2025

  1. expertise in action
  2. Daniel Treier, R.I.P.
  3. The Egyptian
  4. escape clause
  5. Claudia’s dream
  6. two quotations on historicizing
  7. where hope lies
  8. Hugh and Guy
  9. 47879 2
  10. epigraph

November 2025

  1. motion and machine
  2. excerpt from a letter to a friend
  3. Lady Jill Freud
  4. Malocchio
  5. like that
  6. a Euclidean mind
  7. W.H.A. and D.L.S.
  8. back to the brothers
  9. the acceleration of misrepresentation
  10. Tot
  11. Pynchon and Woolf

October 2025

  1. towards Old Man Willow
  2. Murray and Mann
  3. two quotations on economics
  4. the Newman problem
  5. paranoia strikes deep
  6. pinches of Pynchon
  7. judgment day
  8. look who’s reasoning
  9. one condition
  10. Socrates again?
  11. Ella’s Songbooks
  12. should Christians be anarchists?
  13. should Christians be leftists?
  14. revival, retrospection, assessment

September 2025

  1. a slightly embarrassed announcement
  2. consolidation of myth
  3. chaplains in the fire
  4. KK on publishing
  5. unenlightened self-interest
  6. that’s still how it goes, everybody still knows
  7. my Proustian moment
  8. the pleasures of reading

August 2025

  1. the AI business model
  2. something, everything
  3. notes of a supply officer
  4. a word to my students
  5. due diligence
  6. the daily driver
  7. a good and faithful servant
  8. the truth in view
  9. girl Friday
  10. Allan Dwan’s stories
  11. denialism and its counterfeits
  12. my anarchist notebook
  13. the rule book

July 2025

  1. Ulysses and me
  2. 47601 2
  3. Flanagan’s Ireland
  4. hail Satan, but don’t hail Jesus
  5. Cluny Brown
  6. rescue me, O Leviathan
  7. call and response
  8. Sayers and Graves
  9. enemies of the liberal arts
  10. viewpoint diversity revisited
  11. the original of Wimsey
  12. Constantine and Julian
  13. oh the irony
  14. Sayers and Constantine: 6
  15. Sayers and Constantine: 5
  16. Sayers and Constantine: 4

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