Misremembering E. O. Wilson
The tractor wars, temperance pledges, and more
Micah Mattix
Micah Mattix is a senior editor of The Spectator’s World edition and the author of the Prufrock newsletter. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, the Atlantic and many other publications.
Monday
Tuesday
In praise of habit
The necessity of memory, in praise of Brian Moore, and more
Tuesday
The not-so-great Great Books debate
Dickens’s other Christmas stories, what Big History misses, and more
Friday
Tom Stoppard, libertarian
The forgotten Free Silver Movement, revisiting Lucky Jim, and more
Wednesday
Notre-Dame de Paris and that French esprit
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction, faking Native American heritage, and more
Sunday
Saving Henry James’s Christmas ghost story from the critics
If you’ve never read it or only read it in graduate school, give it a try by the ole yule log
Wednesday
Racist little free libraries
Modernists in Cali, the beginning of Europe, and more
Monday
An unconvincing case for cancel culture
In praise of night walks, Robert Frost’s letters, and more
Sunday
How a small publisher survived the digital age
A book about books for book lovers
Sunday
The forgotten poetry of John Martin Finlay
He was an eccentric and a traditionalist
Those long, meaningless end-of-year book lists
Plus: Lord of the Rings-themed cryptocurrency and more
Tuesday
Celebrating holidays in a strange land
Plus: Tucker Carlson and that other new venture in liberal education
Sunday
Why I didn’t start a Substack
It has its limits, especially if you’re writing about books and arts
Will Self on our modern anxiety
Plus: do Americans have King George III all wrong?
Saturday
The pleasures of detective fiction
Plus: why the so-called literary elite don’t know their classics
Wednesday
The miracle drug called poetry
Plus: Crime and Punishment, the return of Prufrock and more
Sunday
Lionel Trilling against cancel culture
The great liberal critic would have detested the left’s attempts to cleanse art and history
Friday
Jung love
Savage Messiah: How Dr Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization by Jim Proser reviewed
