@NikosMohammadi I made one for this exact same reason. I'm home for the Summer so I have toyed with the idea of trying to interview Camille Paglia because she lives in my area but what's the point, who would read it?
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joe woz
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joe woz
@joewoz411
wanna-be psuedo-intellectual| DC by way of Jersey Substack: https://t.co/iEQQqyNexq
Katılım Mart 2026
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Sorry if I sound bitter, but not everyone needs to have their own Substack. I am culpable, of course — I use it to publish pieces that have been rejected from a few places and that I “give up” on — but come on now.
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@gietzschean The Jefferson Memorial was built in a Restrained neo-classical style not Beaux-Arts, that would be more like the Library of Congress
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@ShawnChittle I used to live by Sursum Coda. Interesting backstory. It was founded by do-good Jesuit priests from St. Aloysius back in the 60s as affordable housing but quickly went to hell. So bad even the nuns had to move out. It was bulldozed because a girl was killed execution style there
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@DanielDiMartino Reminds me of a inter-denomotional school I visited on an academic trip to Northern Ireland that had Pride Flags everywhere and a middle-aged principal that had her cleavage out who tut-tuted a boy who mentioned he goes to Church in his free-time. too sectarian apparently
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Or a BLM flag or Vietnam flag for that matter
StopAntisemitism@StopAntisemites
Lawrence, MA - we're curious why there is a Palestinian flag hanging in the middle of a classroom at Lawrence High School?
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@willanselme I just want people to stop wearing sweatpants to Mass (Being back home in my childhood suburban parish really puts things back into perspective after being in the DC bubble)
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I find the (predominantly American convert) obsession with the idea that the Mass is invalid unless one dresses like a non-speaking extra from Brideshead utterly tragic.
I say this as somebody who dresses like a non-speaking extra from Brideshead for everything other than Mass.
Religious Sailor Moon@tradcatboy
Derbys are a casual outdoors shoe. Please do not wear them with a suit to Mass. These shoes are basically superfluous now, they’re not formal enough to wear to anything serious, and we have better informal options. Just delete them from your wardrobe.
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@markdtooley True but the neoclassical city is also now littered with glass and concrete boxes. Jarring contradictions in the urban landscape
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These scenes still exist & more. What mostly doesn’t exist are the ugly industrial sites, slums & burned out sections that long plagued DC.
🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸@MericaCulture
Vintage Postcards: Washington D.C. Never forgive them for what they've turned our nations capital into.
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@BuckThrockmort There was some movement on conservative urbanism back in the 90s with Giuliani and the like. Maybe Spencer Pratt offers the way back home
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Hampton has been hammering the critical point that there is a need for the right to take an interest in cities and to offer urban conservatives a reason to vote. That’s why I invited him to make his case at Ace. (He is always welcome back to expand on the topic, of course.)
Hampton Prescott@HamptonPrezcott
Feels good being about a month or two ahead of the curve: acecomments.mu.nu/?post=418934
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Pretty much captures everything I hate about brutalism.
Steve Webster@croft1a
Anyone got an opinion ? The Obamanation, according to some ~
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@posta_octavian I never understood conservatives who made gay marriage a big culture war issue but also says nothing about no-fault divorce, which seems to have more of an actual material impact on people's lives, especially children
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Opposing gay marriage was/is one of the biggest conservative Ls ever.
Legalising it has:
- raised the prestige of monogamous long-term marriages among gay men
- made being gay less of a clandestine secret culture
- integrated gay men as productive members of society with many positive effects
So everything conservatives *should* want came from its legalisation, despite it having been something they opposed.
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
There are early signs that monogamy is on the upswing once again, even amongst groups that are currently less monogamous than average.
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@johnddavidson It's interesting to note that both left-wing critical theorists and right-wing nationalists converge on this topic because they recognize America had a core culture that latter arrivals scaffolded on.
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As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should not be afraid to say with confidence that America is not merely a creed or a proposition, but a people. And as for the founding, let’s have no more of this falsehood that we were “founded by immigrants.”
The English colonists did not cross the Atlantic to join a new people or assimilate into a new culture. They came to plant the culture of England on these shores, and that’s exactly what they did.
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@roddreher JPII in Love and Responbility wrote about how sexual ethics is a conduit for proper justice in general I.e. viewing people as objects of desire begets an egotistical understanding of justice
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Classic liberal Catholicism: the idea that one has to choose either "pelvic theology" or "social justice". Philip Rieff, an agnostic Jew, called it in 1966: the rejection of the Christian sexual model is a sign of the rejection of Christianity as a social phenomenon.
nytimes.com/2026/05/22/opi…
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@NoVA_Campaigns The Adminstration should draw inspiration from the Schlossbrucke in Berlin in regards to Freedom Plaza
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Democrats are going to be forced to live in a more beautiful city whether they want to or not
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle
It looks like the newly renovated Freedom Plaza is getting even more new statues. The one on horseback was planned, but there are now a dozen more statues lining the northern and southern edges of the plaza.
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@adamlehodey It's an improvement from the current Penn Station, I'll give it that, but that's akin to being the tallest midget.
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Hot take: not everything needs to be neoclassical and the chosen design is pretty nice.
Benjamin Schneider@urbenschneider
Amtrak and USDOT have selected a developer for the Penn Station redesign. The big news: MSG will not have to move and the design will be contemporary, not neoclassical. Also notable: the plan will allow "at least limited through-running on the regional rail network"
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My new apartment is 1300 sqft and idk how to style that shit. I’ve been living in tiny caves for a decade
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@mspringut Really wish people like Elon would channel his inner Carnegie by commissioning works of impressive granduer. I know he cares about Western Civ
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The Greco-Roman-Renaissance-Gilded Age response to having a massive capital surplus was to make it hyper-legible through Splendor and Magnificence. The aristocracy transformed fortunes into exquisite private homes (splendor) and public and enduring works (magnificence) because to do so was a virtue.
Grindslop is its opposite.
Will Manidis@WillManidis
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@DouthatNYT The reason why we don't build beautifully is more because of a spiritual rather than a material poverty
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Claude says it would cost about $4-5 billion to build new Chartres-style cathedrals in prime LA and SF real estate, fyi:
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roon@tszzl
it will be very hard to productively spend this scale of philanthropic capital effectively, it seems already quite hard
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@glukianoff I graduated from Georgetown last week and Mary Beard was the commencement speaker. The way she described the University was basically to cultivate enclosing self-reference instead of searching for truth, probably because they don't believe it can exist objectively
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A university is not a mirror.
Students do not need a better-lit reflection of themselves. They need exposure to people who know things they don’t, see things they miss, and may even be wrong in useful ways.
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@mattyglesias It's historical revisionism plain and simple. The West is not some abstract concept based on the literary canons.
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When you see a Black actor cast to play a character described as fair-haired in an ancient epic poem, there's a clear agenda at work — an agenda to claim canonical works as the common patrimony of the entire West, and that's good!
slowboring.com/p/a-diverse-od…
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