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“While I am all in favor of serving others, the expression “servant leadership” is passive-aggressive virtue signaling which coyly suggests there’s something broken in the classic understanding of “leadership” that can be fixed with the help of egalitarian philosophy and LinkedIn business jargon. Imagine asking a fellow in his twenties if he was married andContinue reading “Against Servant Leadership”

The MEISTERSTÜCK 149 from Montblanc. If you’d like to buy me one for Christmas, here’s the link.

“Will Heaven Be Boring? A Conversation About Beauty And Good Taste” is available for purchase on Amazon now.

Tell me you’re the kind of person who makes “tell me you’re the kind of person who” jokes without telling me you’re the kind of person who makes “tell me the kind of person who” jokes.

This was made a decade ago and it still fees as searingly fresh as a papercut that hasn’t even started to bleed yet.

“The way Tod spoke of their relationship to his friends didn’t always seem entirely accurate to Jill. Tod was ambitious, of course, and perhaps this accounted for his tendency of wildly exaggerating how often they saw each other, or his descriptions of what they did when they were together. “We have this thing we doContinue reading “Bad Romance”

This summer, my family and I are moving back to Idaho where I will be the director of The Classical Teaching Institute. A website with full details is coming soon.

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As of today, I have been blogging for CiRCE for ten years. I decided to make a list of my ten favorite articles from over the last decade. You can read that list here.