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Eccentricity Crisis

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Sam Buntz

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Through its educational priorities and excessive fixation on the quantifiable, the U.S. only supports forms of eccentricity that lend themselves to some immediately definable commercial goal, while neglecting any that have to do with pure curiosity. Hence, we’re lobbing gobs of money at the Sam Altmans and Elon Musks of the world, while forsaking interest in reality itself, in what all this stuff actually is. Pure curiosity about nature, the force that motivated Thoreau and Ramanujan, seems liable to languish on the fringes.

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Real Genius

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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– Arthur Schopenhauer

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@mwerickson Kieślowski’s work is wonderful. A Short Film about Killing is harrowing; Dekalog 5 is a slightly condensed version. But I think his masterpieces are The Double Life of Veronique, Blue, and Red.

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@joshuapsteele Earlier in Luke 15, before we get to the “good stuff,” i.e., lost sheep, lost coin, lost son, there’s this: “And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them.’” Not a minor phrase, but it’s easy to miss in that chapter.

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@joshuapsteele That’s a great one. Earlier in Luke 15, before we get to the “good stuff,” i.e., lost sheep, lost coin, lost son, there’s this: “And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them.’” Yeah, man! Good news indeed, for me, at least.

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Saruman or Adrian Vermeule?

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As the Power grows, its proved friends will also grow; and the Wise, such as you and I, may with patience come at last to direct its courses, to control it. We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends. There need not be, there would not be, any real change in our designs, only in our means.

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@JohnBrady We painted our garage/backhouse this color 10 years ago and love it every day.

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@ayjay Exciting! Looking forward to it.

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@ted Nice quotation. I wonder if Lamster’s book worth buying. I’m glad he reviews Dallas architecture, even though I disagree with him about City Hall.

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Difficult on purpose

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Jonah Goldberg:

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For obvious reasons, I don’t trust Trump with unchecked power. But I also wouldn’t trust Abdul Al-Sayed, or Bernie Sanders, or anyone else with unchecked power. Indeed, the fact that these people tend to believe that obstacles and inconveniences on their quest for ever-more power are somehow illegitimate or unfair is precisely why I don’t trust them with power.

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@KyleEssary @manton If Collin County goes against him, Paxton is toast. Fingers crossed.

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@frjonjordan Great, Jon! Sounds fascinating.

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@jaheppler Wonderful. Love this. Thanks. I’ve added it to my “Hidden Gems” links folder.

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@ayjay A/C: How the West was Won.

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@ablerism Happy Day!

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@ReaderJohn If worse comes to worst, it’ll be (lots of) people in the streets. (Backed up, one hopes, by the people who have tanks.)

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@ted Oh boy. So sorry. Recover well and quickly.

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@ablerism Just great. I love multiples.

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@ChrisReed Looks like an East Dallas (aka “Best Dallas”) summer.

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Real Casualties

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Isabella Gonzales, a 19-year-old Army private from a Dallas suburb, was one of the three U.S. service personnel killed over the weekend because of Donald Trump’s lack of impulse control. Real death, real grief; not that he cares. But the rest of us should.

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Messi notwithstanding, this is just terrible.

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From The Athletic:

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Argentina standing with their backs to the presentation as Spain players go up to receive their medals.

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More from Darron Richman on The Athletic:

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… Argentina shamed themselves from beginning to end and even beyond the final whistle. They were an embarrassment.

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Oh, and this is nice too. Post-match.

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Leandro Paredes, … pushed the Barcelona defender [Eric Garcia] in the throat.

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Finally, this Argentina showreel.

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“Well, that didn’t work. Or that. Or that.” What now for Iran?

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Richard Haas:

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It is important to keep in mind that economic shortcomings still constitute the principal weakness of the Iranian regime. There is no reason to give up on the notion that economic pressure can lead to policy moderation or conceivably even regime change down the road. Economic relief for Iran should thus be heavily and specifically conditioned.

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The whole thing is worth your time. And Trump’s.

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Why am I not surprised?

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Like calls to like:

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Paxton struck back with Texas heavyweights…. The single $250,000 donation from Jones, the Cowboys owner, dwarfed any individual celebrity contribution to Talarico.

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Dallas Morning News, July 18, 2026

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@manton Great. I will just edit the the book’s finished date. Thanks!

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@jabel I think that may be true for everywhere on a latitude south of Lake Michigan between Ohio and Colorado.

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@ChrisReed Some good Haystack deck action.

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@manton I really like this feature. Is there a way to move books to other dates than the one(s) the calendar defaults to?

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@ReaderJohn It’s breathtaking how many lies he can fit into 25 minutes, starting with “Good evening.”

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The Great Photography of Gordon Parks

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Via Colossal

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@ayjay per The Guardian: “In the 37 minutes between Anthony Gordon’s goal and Lautaro Martinez’s winner, England had 12% possession.”

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Urgh.

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World Cup

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Especially for England (but for France, too), having to play a stupid 3rd-place game amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

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Pedro Porro!

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@eastbrad I know Bp. Lamy’s reputation is mixed (what historical figure’s isn’t?), but there’s no doubt that (1) Death Comes for the Archbishop is a wonderful book and (2) that is a beautiful cathedral.

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Only Too True

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‘Now, Julian, we don’t want a sermon,’ said Winifred. ‘You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish.’

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I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

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Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952)

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Skill nostalgia or Necessary Calibration?

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This may resonate with some micro.bloggers: “The radical reasons why you dream of making things by hand”

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@jaheppler I paraphrase (and modify) it: “The dead get a vote. Not a veto, and probably not as highly weighted as the votes of the present and the future, but they do get heard.”

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@manton This sounds great!

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@jabel However (presumably, so far) no succession of kings…

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Subsidiarity and Repair

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Too many essays about [name your American institution (in this essay, it was scouting)] end with the same refrain: It isn’t what it used to be, so I’m leaving. Sometimes, that’s the right decision. Institutions can lose their way, and there are moments when fidelity to conscience requires us to walk away. But increasingly I wonder whether our first instinct has become departure rather than stewardship. Progressives are often criticized for believing institutions can simply be rebuilt from scratch. Yet conservatives sometimes make the opposite mistake: assuming that once an...

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Two from Cataggio

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  1. ... imagining an idealized America that never actually existed and then getting mad that modern America doesn’t look more like it is basically Populism 101.
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  2. Postliberalism’s core conviction is that any policy problem can be solved with sufficient ruthlessness.
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Archie through the grass

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Finished reading

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Nonesuch by Francis Spufford. A ripping plot, fascinating setting (London during the Blitz), spunky (to say the least) protagonist, and real themes about important things. I enjoyed it enormously.

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from Colossal

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Animals and Ornament Emerge from Felted Wool in Holly Guertin’s Textiles

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No voice, but I removed my shoes just in case

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RIP, Robert Coles

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Here’s a sweet remembrance of Robert Coles, one of America’s great champions of children, written by one of my favorite photographers, Alex Harris. A Wikipedia article about Coles is here.

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King Harvest

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Vacation

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Finished reading…

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A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr.

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Wonderful, wistful, lovely book. As economical as a poem.

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“For goodness’ sake,” he said irritably, “I don’t mean that and you know I don’t, you cagey devil. I mean here, Oxgodby, the friends you’ve made, this marvelous summer, the splendid job you’ve done. I mean the lot. You can only have this piece of cake once, you can’t keep on munching away at it. Sad, but there it is!”

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Rocks and Trees

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The (Unofficial) Feast of GKC

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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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