Members-Only Essays

Tolkien's Guide to Defeating Evil

Why your fight always matters

Apr 11 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

How to Reclaim Your Imagination

G.K. Chesterton on regaining agency

Apr 4 • The Culturist

Tolkien's Guide to Re-Enchantment

Learn to love things, not control them

Mar 28 • The Culturist

Dostoevsky's Warning About Loneliness

And the dangers of the imagination

Mar 21 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

You Are Wasting Your Life

Tolstoy’s urgent warning…

Mar 14 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

How to Find Beauty in Dark Times

Art as the antidote to despair

Mar 7 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

The Ultimate Guide to Ancient History

Essential resources to start with

Feb 28 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

How To Overcome Adversity

Lessons from Ernest Shackleton

Feb 21 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

How (Not) to Become Evil

The nature of evil according to Shakespeare

Feb 14 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

Why the Devil Wants You Distracted

Intro to C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters

Feb 7 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

Why Suffering Makes You Beautiful

And how to embrace it

Jan 31 • The Culturist and Evan Amato

Can Beauty Really Save the World?

What Dostoevsky meant

Jan 24 • The Culturist

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