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The Soul of Civility

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Alexandra Hudson joins the podcast to discuss her recent book The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves. Continue Reading »

We Are Repaganizing

There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish poet Hollie McNish, written in 2019 and titled “Conversation with an archaeologist”: he said they’d found a brothel on the dig he did last night I asked him how they know he sighed: a pit of babies’ bones a pit of newborn babies’ . . . . Continue Reading »

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