Stephen Vis

“The modern individual is what remains of the person when romantic ideologies have finished with [him]. It's an idolatry of self-sufficiency that is necessarily deceptive, an anti-mimetic philosophy of the will that immediately causes a redoubling of imitation, an ever more complete submission to the group, which is itself ever more subject to the futile pull of fashion, and thus always exposed to totalitarian temptations.” — René Girard

Gym goers: what’s one exercise you refuse to do, no matter how much people hype it up?

The real dessert served at the state dinner with King Charles. A chocolate beehive gâteau with honey, vanilla custard, and almond sponge. A true celebration of honey. Thank you Bret Baier for snapping the pic.

“Snobs understand each other at first glance and hate each other almost as quickly, for nothing is worse for the desiring subject than to see his own imitation brought out into the open.” — René Girard