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St. Louis and the Bilious Brutalist Architect: A Fable of Urban Renewal
Written Friday, August 22, for the Benton Dramatical Club's Louismas Sketch
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Nicholas Rao
The Proof's in the Poetry: Heidegger, with a Sacramental Twist
Of Aquinas' proofs for the existence of God, I have always been most convinced by the argument from perfection, which is truly the artist's proof.
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Cultural Containment: Why the World Is (or Ought to Be) a Stage
Lecture for the 2025 Roman Forum Summer Symposium, posted by Catholic Family News
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July 2025

Iron Trees and Sharp Corners
Adaptations frequently involve perversions or dilutions of meaning.
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What Culture Means and Doesn't: The Linguistic Theory of Giorgio Agamben
Over the past few years, I have found myself increasingly occupied with the question of what I have called “capital-C Custom” and, most recently, in my…
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Tradition and Capital-C Custom
In a rather obtuse opinion piece about a lecture he didn't understand, Chris Jackson, a Catholic writer, expressed a sentiment that is unfortunately…
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May 2025

April 2025

Cynic's Love Sonnet
Tell me: when action mortifies the mind, And Mind articulated is the end Of impulse; when the academics spend A life chastised by sympathy to find All…
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Vultures' Reveille
Good morning, Prometheus, how have you been? We're here to devour your liver again. And if you respond with a stoical grit, We'll go for a smaller, less…
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Le grammaire: le temps, le mode et la voix
A Grammatical Map of Verbs
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A Series of Brief Reflections upon Madness, for the Edification (or Instruction) of None by Myself: Part II
Allegorical and Analogical Culture, and the Madness of Symbols
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