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July 2023

July 19, 2023

Summer Reading List

This reading list consists of some of the books on the original Cracks in PoMo...

July 13, 2023

Against non-ethnic Orthobros

They say you should take the zeal of a convert to a given religion with...

July 04, 2023

In Defense of Dirtbags

on Red Scare, our humorless age, and the Decadent/[Dimes] Trad Horseshoe if you’re interested in...

June 2023

June 28, 2023

The (Post-)Pride Reading list

if you’re interested in preordering a copy of cracks in pomo: the zine or in...

June 22, 2023

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the neoliberal co-opting of religious discourse

The quest for certainty has more than merely academic interest. It also enters into the...

June 13, 2023

Why Ron DeSantis is Evil, and Donald Trump is not (really)

I’ll make this brief. Ron DeSantis and Donald J. Trump are two totally different [political]...

June 04, 2023

The Dawn of our Post-Pride Moment, and on the ethno/class divide of rainbow flags

if you’re interested in preordering a copy of cracks in pomo: the zine or in...

May 2023

May 30, 2023

Sperging the Mass(es): more notes on neurodivergence and trad piety

So I recently spent an extended period of time around a group of trads who...

April 2023

April 25, 2023

Notes on Anti-Structure: sontagian musings on a taylorian idea

*“There is a heightened excitement at these moments of fusion, reminiscent of Carnival, or of...

April 14, 2023

Notes on Andrew Tate

A follow up to my article “There’s something queer about Andrew Tate” published in The...

April 04, 2023

“Aspergers Me, Domine”: neurodivergents in religious spaces

For some reason, some people found it shocking—perhaps even scandalous—that I would point out the fact...

March 2023

March 31, 2023

James Baldwin: Repressed Prophet

James Baldwin is a genius. His writing has tremendously shaped the way I look at...

March 16, 2023

What exactly does one do with white people?

on 'You People' and the banality of assimilated whites The most divisive force in America...

January 2023

January 24, 2023

Benedict: The Postmodern Pope

After long await, here are some excerpts from my essay on Benedict, the postmodern Pope:...

January 02, 2023

2022 Wrap Up: The Best of Cracks in Pomo

Thanks to everyone who supported CracksInPomo this year. Get ready for new posts next year...

November 2022

November 02, 2022

October Updates

Articles published this month: The attraction of Catholic traditionalism: From the fringes to the spotlight...

October 2022

October 25, 2022

Kanye’s Concerning Compromise

on prophecy, subsidiarity, and the errors of expediency for its own sake I wrote in...

October 19, 2022

Who gets/has to be white?: On Rick Caruso, the “latinidad” of Italians, and the feast of St. Gerard in Newark

Just days after publishing an article about ethnic identity and racial identity categories, I see...

September 2022

September 22, 2022

Bad Bunny’s Big Gay Kiss: The Banality of Public Spectacles under Liquid Modernity

Reactions to Bad Bunny’s same sex kiss on the 39th annual MTV Video Music Awards...

September 17, 2022

Notes on Trads: the latest in the trad Catholic wars

The latest at Trad parishes *I’m noticing that although some attend the TLM because they...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

What Paglia got wrong

10 things that Camille Paglia has said that I disagree with 1. She tends to...

May 2022

May 07, 2022

Rowe Hot Takes

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” -Oscar Wilde Scrolling...

April 2022

April 12, 2022

Why is Dionysus on the cover of Cracks in Pomo?

Dionysus (or Bacchus, in the Latin rendering) is the Greek god of wine, drunkenness, fertility,...

March 2022

March 25, 2022

“Latinas Don’t Twerk”: Ivy Queen’s loaded comments on Afrodiasporic music

Recently a group of friends recounted to me a scene at a party involving an...

March 19, 2022

Quentin Crisp’s Mystical Desire for the “Great Dark Man”

Quentin Crisp, the British aesthete, came to fame in the 1940s for being one of...

January 2022

January 29, 2022

The Weeknd’s Soulless R&B

Ever since The Weeknd rose to fame in the early 2010’s, commercial R&B music has...

January 05, 2022

Reading into Reggaeton: Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro, Jowell y Randy

“Safaera,” Bad Bunny ft. Jowell y Randy and Nengo Flow The intro to Bad Bunny’s...

January 03, 2022

Gyms: Temples of Neoliberal Atomization

Exercising at a gym is the supreme expression of the atomized neoliberal self. In pre-modern...

December 2021

December 31, 2021

Spotify W(t)rapped: The Identitarianism of Music Streaming

Spotify Wrapped represents the atomization of the consumption of art and its subjection to the...

December 26, 2021

Writing wrap up 2021

5 most fun articles to write this year: 1. Me explaining why before you criticize...

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