1,241 words
Last week on X, boomers again struggled in public to understand inflation. This time, they told young people to eat highly processed bread and meat for lunch, or some other form of slop, so that in ten years they could afford a down payment on a house. I’m calling it the Lunch Wars. (more…)
3,733 words
“Many no longer doubt the possibility of a world crisis. . .” These words seem entirely appropriate for our current interesting times, but were actually written almost exactly a hundred years ago. For the generation which produced the author, the great French metaphysician René Guénon, they would only have to wait just over a decade for their crisis, which took the form of World War 2. What will our crisis be? (more…)
Ramadan lights near Leicester Square in London, March 2023.
Ramadan lights near Leicester Square in London, March 2023.
2,142 words
Christ, you know it ain’t easy
So, the union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland staggers through another year of our Lord, although that’s not a much-used phrase just at the moment. (more…)