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The Best Book I Edited in 2025
While there certainly await books already imagined and yet to be imagined in 2026 for me to write, edit, and publish, I am quite satisfied with the…
Dec 31, 2025
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Introducing Peremen Magazine
On Change, by Trygve Rasmussen
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POLITICAL ARTISTS: Julius Evola
Or, Welcome to a new Bystander series
Jun 11
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Madman, Mystic, or Marketing Genius? The Dali They Never Told You About
The story of a much more BASED artist than you think.
Published on Vitalist Magazine
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Jun 7
Was Salvador Dali Insane?
Wherein I have assembled a gallery of pictures and thoughts
May 26
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Why the Vikings Weren't 'Based'
Dec 25, 2025
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Was Salvador Dali Insane?
May 26
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The Painter Who Killed a King
Feb 22
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How to Think Like Marcus Aurelius: Ten Pictures that Strike into the Heart of 'Meditations'
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How to Think Like Marcus Aurelius: Ten Pictures that Strike into the Heart of 'Meditations'
With ten pictures & with some more words than that -- &, of course, compliments to Mr Dog for the slop-title recommendation
May 15
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To Create or to Complain: There's the Point
A brief meditation on the notion of a descent or disappearance of beauty from the world
Published on Vitalist Magazine
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May 6
Why Khrushchev Hated Modern Art
The Story Thereof
May 1
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The Artist in Revolutionary Russia
Of Two Paintings by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky
Mar 24
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The Painter Who Killed a King
The Artistic Life of Jacques-Louis David
Feb 22
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Why the Vikings Weren't 'Based'
I do not know who made this image, but well done as it is very funny.
Dec 25, 2025
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How to See Political Meaning in Art (+ a Quiz)
How to see political meaning and messaging, as well as the spirit of the time, in art?
Dec 16, 2025
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Slopmanity, Slopmania, and the Birth of Slop Wars (PICTURES INSIDE!)
Ye shall know that Mammon, in never such gigs and flunky ‘respectabilities,’ is not the alone God; that of himself he is but a Devil, and even a…
Dec 12, 2025
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