The Age of Paine

“Where liberty is, there is my country,” declared Benjamin Franklin, to which Thomas Paine replied, “Where is not liberty, there is mine.”…

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Future’s So Bright I Need VR Goggles

I still feel the hunger after all these years. The pangs spark at the strangest times—as attention wanes at co-worker’s oft-told story; ascent 302 of the thousand times I climb my apartment staircase, moments of confusion amidst a girl’s mixed signals. I want to go back to that safe, warm, strong place of my childhood. I want to play video games again.

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Radical Conservatism: Thinking Through V.S. Naipaul’s Haters and Counterparts (Pt. 2)

Part two of an essay that starts here.

In part one of this essay, I quoted a passage from Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas where he invokes Caribbean city streets inhabited “by people so broken, so listless, it would have required the devotion of a lifetime to restore them.” Such devotion was inconceivable to Naipaul.  The life  of Fr. Rick Frechette brings home the limits of the novelist’s imagination.

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