George Harrell
@geharrell
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Humanities teacher with @KeplerEducation, Executive Director of @BuchananForum
Moscow, ID
Joined May 2015
Some really solid thoughts here from @PaulVanderKlay on @holland_tom and his highly enjoyable interview. I also can't wait to see how Tom's work develops. Quick thought: Paul notes the role Jansenism played in the lead-up to the French Revolution, but the influence of French
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This is a very interesting discussion, because it misses the subtleties of the argument being made when the Dissident Right invokes Schmitt and the friend/enemy distinction. The problem is not with whether or not there are friends or enemies, or even with whether or not there are
Scratch a “classical liberal” find a rabid Schmittian
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Historian Tom Holland: Islam, Christianity & the West Who doesn't love @holland_tom? A very enjoyable discussion between him and @KonstantinKisin and @francisjfoster over at @triggerpod. Quick thought: I keep wondering what the empirical basis is for the claim that our culture
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"The first step towards hope is to withhold approval from solutions that are hopeless." - Wendell Berry
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Paul Kingsnorth interviewing the always-delightful Fr. Freeman:
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AI and the Future of Wisdom. Midwestuary 2025 with Jonathan Pageau and John Vervaeke This was an incredibly great conversation and touched on so many important points regarding collective spirits, prosperitocracy, and embodied wisdom. One comment on Pageau's remarks that he
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“The idea of nature as something to be organized for human convenience spreads insidiously into the idea that human life is something to be organized for my individual convenience.” - Elizabeth Theokritoff
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Some great thoughts here, as always, from @PLeithart regarding the theory of nations and states. One interesting point, though, is that he quotes the author, Walker Connor, saying: “Germany and Japan [in WWII] were among the handful of states that clearly qualify as
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“Adam, the man of the ground (‘adamah), bursts into an ‘ish (pun on ‘esh, “fire”) when Yahweh presents the ‘ishshah (woman). It’s not good for Adam to be alone, because alone he’ll never rise to the glory Yahweh plans for him.” - Leithart Woman transfigures man in a symbolic way
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At this point I am willing to accept payments from @DrFrancisYoung to become his personal promoter.
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Very exciting!
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Man, I miss bookstores.
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