Cracks in Pomo: The Essentials
articles and podcast episodes
How to Cracks in PoMo?: A Manifesto
THE ESSENTIALS
Confessions of a “Weird Catholic”-National Catholic Reporter, 6/5/20
Who gets/has to be white: on Rick Caruso and the erasure of ethnic whites – American Sun
Our culture war is two sides of the same Nietzschean coin–Newsweek
Notes on Anti-Structure – Substack
Based or Cringe? Matty Healy joins the meme war – UnHerd
Camille Paglia’s Second Wave-The American Conservative, 8/5/22
The Cognitive Dissonance of Rainbow Capitalism-Catholic World Report, 6/25/21
Andrea Long Chu’s Females Subverts Subversiveness-Catholic World Report, 9/16/20
Searching for the Solidarity after the “Great White Flight”-National Catholic Register, 8/3/22
PODCAST EPISODES
Jordan Castro on his novel The Novelist, the manosphere, and alt-literature
Call Me By Your Name author Andre Aciman on memory and desire
Sean Thor Conroe on his novel Fuccboi, masculinity, and morality
John Milbank on postliberal stuff
Urban Hannon on his article “Against Heterosexuality” and on the contrasting narratives of Brideshead Revisited, Call Me Be Your Name, and Love, Simon
Shadi Hamid on his new book The Problem of Democracy, and whether Americans can afford to be post-liberal
Armin Rosen on Rolling Loud and Playboi Carti
Make America Sinful Again with the hosts of Contra Gentiles
You Must Have a Cigarette with Michael B. Foley
Puritan Signaling with Joseph Bottum
Act locally, think locally on race and distributism with Albert Thompson
OTHER ARTICLES ON…
RELIGION
The Danger of Respectable Christianity—Mere Orthodoxy, 4/5/21
In Defense of Dirtbags—Substack, 6/23
The case for bad Catholics—The Spectator Australia, 1/14/23
My grandmother was many things, but sane wasn’t one of them-Grotto Network, 5/27/21
The Postmodern Pope—The Hedgehog Review, 1/17/23
Were some saints mentally ill, holy, or both?-National Catholic Reporter, 4/30/21
The devotional Catholicism behind Andy Warhol’s postmodern art-America Magazine, 1/7/22
Piety at the Parish-Ethika Politika, 7/15/19
POP CULTURE
Ariana Grande: Unicorn Frappuccino Instagram Barbie— The Critic Magazine, 10/29/22
One year after UVST, Bad Bunny is still provocative and commodified – Nylon
Colonialism, globalism, and inculturation in Beyoncé’s Black is King-Catholic World Report, 10/6/20
Cultural Decay vs. Appropriation vs. Rosalia-The Iffy, 7/3/22
Lady Bird, Charles Taylor, and the Buffered Self-Mere Orthodoxy, 11/30/20
Reggaeton can reveal God to us–if we’re listening carefully-America Magazine, 12/11/20
The Sacramental Love Songs of Bachata’s Romeo Santos-America Magazine, 5/14/21
GENDER/SEX
There’s Something Queer About Andrew Tate - The American Spectator
Barbie Boys in a Gender Confused World—Newsweek
Love, Sex, and Dorothy Day—America Magazine
The Angst of the Male Thirst Trapper – Tablet
Sodomy, Smoking, and the inversion of vices-Catholic World Report, 3/29/22
How secular humanism is ruining drag-The Spectator World, 8/29/22
POLITICS
Red Scare podcast and Postmodern Politics-The American Conservative, 1/29/22
A camp icon: the paradoxes of Trump’s truth-telling | Stephen G. Adubato | The Critic Magazine
J. Cole’s “4 Your Eyez Only” Gives Hope for Change After Elections-Mere Orthodoxy, 10/21/20
Reality Check: Review of Sean Thor Conroe's Fuccboi—City Journal, 12/27/22