Mostly Aesthetics

The Problem of Evil

“Every lover of English poetry should read, and every student of English poetry should study George Herbert."

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September 2026

Training Manual for the Final Solution

Training Manual for the Final Solution: a poem

Sep 26 • Brad Skow

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Conservatism as Skeptical Solution to Life

“Custom is the great guide of human life”

Sep 19 • Brad Skow

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Style and Substance

To read The Annotated Big Sleep is to endure constant interruptions by a nerdy audience, eager to share esoteric facts.

Sep 12 • Brad Skow

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God, Faith, and other Alien Encounters

In the sci-fi film Contact Dr Eleanor Arroway is in love and at odds with Palmer Joss, a man of faith.

Sep 6 • Brad Skow

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August 2026

Bowie in Berlin in Fragments

“I rammed him for a good five to ten minutes,” Bowie later recalled, between songs at a BBC concert in 2000.

Aug 29 • Brad Skow

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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Chilon to Pherecydes

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Aug 22 • Brad Skow

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Omaha Beach / The Children Who Were Chosen

Two Poems

Aug 15 • Brad Skow

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“Hide not your face from me”

Bertrand Russell was once asked how he would justify his atheism, if he found himself before the pearly gates.

Aug 7 • Brad Skow

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What makes sad music sad?

On Appearance Emotionalism

Aug 2 • Brad Skow

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July 2026

Paradise Regained Read Blind

Jesus fasted forty days in the desert, and was tempted by Satan. Paradise Regained is John Milton’s re-telling of those temptations, with expansions and…

Jul 25 • Brad Skow

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Moral Monsters

However evil you believe the Nazis were, the reality was worse.

Jul 18 • Brad Skow

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