Our Founders were Atheists
...and agnostics and deists.
Barney's Rubble
Literature, history and politics with a dash of Hitchens, a sprinkle of Vidal and a whole lot of rubble.
Latest episodes
New Poem
A Libration Map of the Soul
New Moon: Shoot Artists into Space
Like I said, BLAST artists into outer-space.
New Pornography
On Britney Spears' new OnlyFans account and the future of celebrity pornography.
Why Cormac McCarthy Stopped Reading New Novels
On Infinite Jest and the Publishing-Industrial Complex
How the European "far"-Right is More Socialistic Than Zohran Mamdani
Including interviews with German asylee applicant Naomi Seibt and Heidi Reichinnek, leader of the Left Party in German Parliament.
New Podcast "Quality Lit Game"
Episode One: That disaster known as One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Wes Anderson.
Gore Vidal, Re-revisited
A response to Ross Barkan's revisitation.
Against AI
A review of Ewan Morrison's novel "For Emma"
The DEATH of Men's Underwear
A protest. An ode. An elegy. An open letter to Calvin Klein.
Who's Afraid of Red Scare?
Review of Harper's/Red Scare's controversial event, "Whither Contemporary Art?" on the failings of contemporary art. And an interview with art critic Dean Kissick who started it all.
Unpacking My "Seriously Impressive" Spotify Wrapped!
Now I'm not one to brag, but according to Spotify, my musical tastes are "seriously impressive." Wow. I like the sound of that!
Update: Vanity Fair Published My Story
Dear all,
Rubble's Interregnum
Trump, UAPs, literature—an update on where we're headed this summer.
Martin Amis is Alive and Well and Living in London Fields
All writers dies twice — except for Martin Amis.
Physics Behind the Rhododendrons
Spinors, found only in quantum mechanics and the fiction of Evelyn Waugh. Review of Vile Bodies, the ultimate modernist novel, or anti-modernist, or, er... supramodernist? Read to find out!
Sahar Khalifeh: Lost Gospel of Palestinian Letters
This week I review one of the best Palestinian novels that no one's ever heard of.
Cormac McCarthy Stumps in Florida
The quantum mechanics of last novels.