N. C. Wyeth, Nightfall, 1945.
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Recently I had surgery. It went well, nothing serious. However, it was unexpected. I had to ask myself — what if it was serious? What if my body was riddled with stage 4 cancer and I’d better say my prayers, update my will, and buy a grave? (more…)
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Seneca and James Romm, ed., trans.
How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
Princeton University Press, 2019
Long before self-help books, pop-psychology gurus, TED talks, non-fiction political punditry, and “anger-management” classes, the ancients dispensed wisdom on a variety of topics, personal and societal. (more…)
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Mitch Horowitz
The Power of Sex Transmutation: How to Use the Most Radical Idea from Think and Grow Rich
New York: G & D Media, 2019
“The whole movement of the world tends and leads towards copulation. It is a substance infused through everything; it is the centre—towards which all things turn.”–Montaigne[1] (more…)
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Vox Day
Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity’s Greatest Thinker
Castalia House, 2018
I have a confession: I was once a fan.
I was recommending the works and lectures of Dr. Jordan Peterson to friends, strangers, and family. (more…)
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A number of years ago, I was sent on a boondoggle to advise some military cadets about an engineering project they were working on. While having lunch following the meeting, one of the cadets complained that all sorts of “old timers” came and went and gave the same advice for the soon to be commissioned subalterns in the US Military. The advice was: (more…)
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1. No More New Year’s Resolutions!
My readers know that each December I perform a solemn ritual: establishing ten resolutions (no more, no less) for the coming year. I have discussed this process elsewhere, and given advice on how to implement it yourself. In the past, I have formulated my resolutions well before the evening of December 31. This year, however, things did not go as planned.
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Ivan Throne
The Nine Laws: Survival, Momentum, Triumph
Castalia House, 2016
What if Julius Evola had written a samurai treatise? What if Lao Tzu had written a long, systematic book of philosophy instead of the short, poetic chapters of the Tao Te Ching? What if the famed, long-lost book On Nature by Heraclitus — he who was called “The Dark” — were to be found and published? (more…)
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“I write the best articles. No, really: My articles are the best.”
This is the sort of thing that I would write, if I were Donald Trump. It’s definitely the sort of thing I think, but my internal censor would stop it from achieving corporeal shape. (more…)
Norman Vincent Peale
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“Personally, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the Apostle Peale appalling.” — Adlai Stevenson on hearing Norman Vincent Peale was supporting Eisenhower.
“I know that with God’s help I can sell vacuum cleaners.” — Rev. Norman Vincent Peale (more…)
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Since I am not all right, I sometimes find myself reading self-help books. I am not proud of this. There is something pathetic about a man almost forty-five who is still trying to straighten himself out. There is something still more pathetic about such a man relying on mass-market paperbacks in order to do so.
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Rhonda Byrne
The Secret
New York: Atria Books/Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words Publishing, 2006
DVD:
The Secret (Extended Edition)
TS Productions, 2006
Many whites embrace New Age beliefs; sometimes the beliefs have venerable roots.
