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Two Christmas Playlists from my “A Matter of Taste” series.

Dark chocolates from Debauve & Gallais Giuseppe Giusti’s Banda Rossa 20-year vinegar D.S. & Durga car air fresheners Esteban’s Amber Japanese style incense (a perennial favorite) Lobby boy cap from The Society of Crossed Keys A continental wallet, perhaps this one or this one Rougie Foie Gras A bottle of Green Irish Tweed from Creed

“Teachers want administrators who are around. Administrators need to be present. They need to put in lots of face time every week. Headmasters at big schools may disappear for days at a time, but not weeks at a time. On the other hand, principals and deans need to be in the middle of things every day soContinue reading “What Classical Teachers Want From Administrators”

If you’re in town, please come.

Conservatives are obsessed with pilling. Everybody is getting this-pilled and that-pilled. The pills aren’t even colors anymore. There are noun-pills and idea-pills. Even modest changes of mind constitute a pilling of some sort. “I wanted to go to Wendy’s for lunch but Tony Whopper-pilled me and we went to Burger King, instead.” “We were goingContinue reading “This-Pilled and That-Pilled”

Comic, but by no means a joke. This is wonderful. “By not cursing in rush hour traffic, thou hast found the way to divine contemplation/ And by working nine to five at a mind numbing desk job for twenty years to feed thy family thou hast broken the snares of the enemy/ By not judgingContinue reading “The Troparion of the Mediocre Saint Bob”

Proudly center-right theologians all got the memo to make a lot of “not political,” steely-eyed, vaguely prophetic observations and pregnant Biblical allusions on Twitter today.

Teacher: Can we talk? Board chair: Sure. Teacher: I’m here on behalf of a group of teachers who are concerned about your decision to make former MTV-VJ and Encino Man star Pauly Shore the headmaster of this school. Board chair: I don’t understand. What’s the problem? Teacher: He doesn’t have a classical bone in hisContinue reading “Pauly Shore, Classical Christian School Headmaster”