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The Decline of the West
“The infinite does not transcend the finite,” says Hegel. “Rather, it is the very movement of the finite itself.”
May 26
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Donald Antenen
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March 2025
The Corner of the Turkish Redoubt Captured on May 30 but Abandoned on May 31, 1877
His sorrowful eyes remind me of the greatest moment of rock ‘n’ roll in the history of southwestern Ohio.
Mar 5
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Donald Antenen
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January 2025
Concerning Beatrice Fizzard
A letter from Sr. Mary Athanasius, O.P.
Jan 20
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Donald Antenen
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December 2024
Winterschwimmen
Christmas stories from the Borges Review of Books.
Dec 24, 2024
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Donald Antenen
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November 2024
The Thomist of Newfoundland
In the constellation of anglophone Catholic intellectual historians of eastern Canada no star shines brighter than Matthew Julius Thimpick, MA.
Nov 24, 2024
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Donald Antenen
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June 2024
The River of Dreams
Like a Ghibelline spy entices a street urchin to arson?
Jun 24, 2024
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Donald Antenen
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April 2024
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Favorite Novel
He imagines what they think about while walking in silence behind him, and he imagines what he would do if he looked behind to find his children…
Apr 26, 2024
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Donald Antenen
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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Favorite Novel
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The Meaning of Plato
Sometimes eternity reaches down its pointer finger and scoots us in the right direction.
Apr 11, 2024
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Donald Antenen
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March 2024
It is not so much Hysterical Realism as it is Hysterical Hysteria
Or, long forgotten drafts from the prehistory of the Borges Review of Books
Mar 27, 2024
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Donald Antenen
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February 2024
The Maid and the Castle
Ocean liner staffs in the 1960s were the most concentrated and serious population of poets in the world.
Feb 15, 2024
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Donald Antenen
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Margaret Valéry, Ethnologist
Her passion for ethnology didn’t sway her father, who refused to let her travel to north Ciscaucasia, so she waited and read and dreamt of walking…
Feb 10, 2024
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January 2024
Three Sisters: a Kijk Folktale
Kijk elders have a story about the Dolmens of Ciscaucasia. Tevfik Esenç told it to me one morning as we walked through Gaziosmanpaşa in search of what…
Jan 11, 2024
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