Best of Cracks in PoMo 2023
End of Year Wrap Up
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Best of Cracks in PoMo
Articles
What a time to be alive!: On the latest vibe shift-Stephen G. Adubato
IStandWith [insert tribal belonging here]: on the barrage of virtue signaling-
Purity Culture Is (Unfortunately) Here to Stay: A Twist on Paglian Archetyping-
Searching for Personality in a Sea of Identities-
Everybody wants to be a [homo]fascist-Stanley Bast
Conversion Therapy vs. Bisexual Responsiveness-Stephen G. Adubato
The Queer/Muslim Horseshoe: Why the Youth Are Deconstructive-Stephen G. Adubato
Pasolini against the Power-Carlo Lancelotti
Post-Pride reading list-Stephen G. Adubato
Notes on Anti-Structure-Stephen G. Adubato
What exactly does one do with white people? [review of You People]-Stephen G. Adubato
Podcast Eps
Junot Diaz on his writing process, Dominican spirituality, and life in NJ
Abbot Nikodemus on living in the midst of the Israel-Gaza conflict
John Waters on pop music, the cult of celebrity, technocratic conspiracies, and decolonization
Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa on the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, new feminism, and weird saints
Sean Thor Conroe on his debut novel…one of my favorite and most vulnerable interviews yet
Patrick Deneen on the postliberal horseshoe and building local cultures
Eric Doce (@hamburgerhelpless) on Paglia’s Sexual Personae
Jordan Castro on alt-literature, responsibility-pilled bootstrappers, and OrthoBros
Thumbelina Newsome on suffering, hope, taking responsibility for oneself, and healing parent-child relationships
And of course, The Zine!
Best of our work elsewhere
Culture
The Angst of the Male Thirst Trapper—Tablet
There’s Something Queer About Andrew Tate - The American Spectator
On Transgenderism and Transracialism-Real Clear
Tik Tok and Self Diagnosis-COMPACT
Study philosophy in high school: Learning about ideas and how to think-NY Daily News
Our Culture War is Two Sides of the Same Nietzschean Coin-Newsweek
Battling the body: the David fiasco would baffle Italians-The Critic
Who gets/has to be white?-The American Sun
The Myth of a Good Divorce—Plough Quarterly
Politics
Conservatives, Don't Be Afraid To Embrace Juneteenth—Newsweek
The Conservative Case for Cornel West’s Candidacy-Newsweek
A camp icon: the paradoxes of Trump’s truth-telling-The Critic Magazine
Books/TV/Music
One Year After Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny is Provocative and Commodified—NYLON
The Enchantment of Novels-RealClear
The Diabolism of the MTV VMAs-Return
Houellebecq, joy, and Jesus—The Critic
Based or Cringe? Matty Healy joins the meme wars—UnHerd
Religion
The case for bad Catholics—The Spectator Australia
The Postmodern Pope (Benedict was the real ‘gay icon’)—The Hedgehog Review
Watching Pasolini on Good Friday—The American Spectator
Pope Benedict and Nietzsche on the Death of God on Holy Saturday-America
Love, Sex and Dorothy Day—America Magazine
Pod eps
Pope-modernism: on the 2 popes @ Schizotopia
On my conversion, the cult of celebrity, Bad Bunny, Gaga, Mariah, et al @ I need god pod
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