At the risk of being understood here as making a value judgment, I will repeat myself: we ought to encourage men to grow full beards as a symbolic embrace of virtuous masculinity.More
Category Archives: Aesthetics
All the Ologies, and Letting Your Reasonableness Be Known to Everyone
We must believe truth, honor, justice, purity, and loveliness are real things that exist in order to think on them, much less make an orderly and productive study of them. More
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Goodness must align with the truth, and goodness is beautiful. Similarly, some hint at least of truth and goodness is inherent to that which we call objectively beautiful.More
Chest Binders and Biblical Modesty
Now is as good a time as any for us to talk seriously about mammaries, and to ask what it can possibly mean when we read Deuteronomy 22:5 concerning men’s and women’s clothing.More
Book Review: ‘A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful’ by Edmund Burke
Burke bids us stop and smell the roses here, and appreciate their thorns, then see the illiberality of the other sciences moderated with a fuller and more soulful humanity.More
Homeschool Dances, Hiking in the Mountains, and Burke On Beauty
Some Billie Jean and Rick Astley combined with perhaps too much lemonade, but made their telling of the whole business pure comedic gold, and their mother and I laughed until we cried.More