Lance French
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"McCarthy was starting to seem like a man whose talents and intelligence were without limits, yet he lived in a hoarder’s shambles and couldn’t stop buying nonstick skillets and fruit bowls." www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth
The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat
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October 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
"McCarthy was starting to seem like a man whose talents and intelligence were without limits, yet he lived in a hoarder’s shambles and couldn’t stop buying nonstick skillets and fruit bowls." www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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“what is the crime?!” I scream as the police drag me away from the polling booth “…enjoying a succulent free Māori hangi?!”
July 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
“what is the crime?!” I scream as the police drag me away from the polling booth “…enjoying a succulent free Māori hangi?!”
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"Fear is a bad advisor." — Sergio Vieira de Mello
June 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Fear is a bad advisor." — Sergio Vieira de Mello
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This is not how I wanted to end up in the @nytimes.com.web.brid.gy but here we are...
Opinion | The Naval Academy Canceled My Lecture on Wisdom
How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.
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April 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is not how I wanted to end up in the @nytimes.com.web.brid.gy but here we are...
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“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress," Marcus Aurelius said. You’re never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. You’re human. So instead, aim for progress, even the smallest amount.
April 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress," Marcus Aurelius said. You’re never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. You’re human. So instead, aim for progress, even the smallest amount.
When you read the news...
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
When you read the news...
"they know that the only future they can rule in the way they want is one that is passive, stupid, small and shrinking... it is a future you'd only accept if you had given up on every other richer and more human and more generous one." defector.com/the-future-i...
The Future Is Too Easy | Defector
LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of ...
defector.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
"they know that the only future they can rule in the way they want is one that is passive, stupid, small and shrinking... it is a future you'd only accept if you had given up on every other richer and more human and more generous one." defector.com/the-future-i...
The West seems to be living in an era of profound social pathology. Perhaps education in the humanities was important after all?
February 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The West seems to be living in an era of profound social pathology. Perhaps education in the humanities was important after all?