Precisely the Thing that Led to the Secularization of Culture

On his Leaves in the Wind newsletter, David Bentley Hart recently posted a video chat with the essayist Ed Simon, in part because Hart so admired Simon's book Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature the last chapter which ("Binding the Ghost: On the Physicality of Literature") almost cause Hart not to … Continue reading Precisely the Thing that Led to the Secularization of Culture →

Mechanical Brideshead Revisited

I. Conservatives are just liberals driving at the speed limit. Mind you, it's good to drive at the speed limit so there are fewer accidents and atrocities on the road; every motor vehicle being, lest we forget, a mechanical Jacobin. Drivers simply can't avoid driving Jacobins along; Jacobins simply can't avoid driving drivers up the … Continue reading Mechanical Brideshead Revisited →