Longing to Belong

How does it feel to be cast out of church? Fine, thanks.

Mar 8 • Leo Marcel Schuman

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Unity, Hockey, 2 for 2

What a phone call can do

Mar 1 • Joel Byron Barker

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February 2026

Tradition, Punk, and State-Sponsored Violence

Cooking with T. S. Eliot, René Guénon, and a smidgen of Paul Kingsnorth

Feb 22 • Leo Marcel Schuman and Joel Byron Barker

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The Bridge Generation

Guest Writer: John Peace

Feb 15

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An un-comprehensive contribution to the recent SubStack back and forth on those wild and pointless sentences of some folks, seemingly…

In which I attempt to exceed the bounds of legibility

Feb 8 • Joel Byron Barker

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Careful with those stories of yours

Your predictions are not telescopes. They are cudgels.

Feb 1 • Joel Byron Barker

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January 2026

Money Follows the Iguanas

Walking in Vallarta 62 years after Liz Taylor drew in the Gays

Jan 25 • Leo Marcel Schuman

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Rolled Coal and the Nature of Humanity.

Are people getting meaner than they used to be? Are we as a species getting dumber? Are we evolving into higher beings?

Jan 18 • Joel Byron Barker

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Caracas in Vallarta

Looking people in the eyes this week, in Mexico.

Jan 11 • Leo Marcel Schuman

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A Centrist View of the Future

From someone with questionable centrist credentials who is just as bad at predicting the future as you

Jan 4 • Joel Byron Barker

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The infinitely long bookshelf; Curation, self publishing, and creation today

Listen now | A conversation on the vacuum where our old curators used to be.

Jan 3 • Leo Marcel Schuman and Joel Byron Barker

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December 2025

Flunking Retirement

GenX in the jaws between Medicare and AI

Dec 28, 2025 • Leo Marcel Schuman

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