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Lover of Christ and American writer.

Washington, D.C.

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Emma Collins

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I have written a longform essay about Colette, the great French sensualist and one of my favorite authors of all time. I touch on D.H. Lawrence, how to live conservative values in a relaxed and freeing way, and my distaste for academic writing. It’s on my Stack.

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How far will people take the practice of putting “radical” in front of things so they don’t ever have to feel conventional? Marriage becomes radical monogamy. Birth becomes radical procreation. Death becomes radical non-existence.

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The progressive faction assumes that women and people of color who don’t agree with their worldview are suffering from internalized misogyny or white supremacy. This is an insult to the intelligence and mental autonomy of millions of Americans.

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“As a cultural analyst, I want to remain in touch with the mainstream of American life.” Camille Paglia in 2008

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@bariweiss @GlennLoury Excited to listen. Watching @GlennLoury and @JohnHMcWhorter talk has taught me so much about what it really means to be free.

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Sometimes before I sit down to write, a kind of dizziness or haziness overtakes me. Modern understanding would refer to this as anxiety or depersonalization, but I try to envision it as the Holy Spirit descending

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@MarkLevineNYC “I don’t support bodily autonomy or nuanced opinions.” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩

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@mtaibbi Keep going. You are appreciated.

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I really enjoyed this piece in @reason by @sladesr

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@asgribbin Or worse, the tote bag

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“A Prayer of Unknowing” by Thomas Merton

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One of the main events of my childhood was moving from a working class, religious, red area to a hyper blue bubble academic town. I know very well the class divide @lwoodhouse speaks of here.

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Those Other White People

For some white liberals, anti-racism is a smoke screen for class prejudice.

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People getting closer to Christianity for trend-driven, superficial, or aesthetic reasons is still a good thing. If some of them decide to try prayer and speak to God one evening because of what they’ve seen in the cultural realm, God hears that.

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I totally know what this person means, Christianity/a spiritual experience is palatable to nice liberals as long as it is tepid, restrained, and civilized, but what many people crave is perhaps a more passionate experience of faith.

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@sullydish Urm… what is URM? Lol

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This is the top comment on a current NYTimes op-ed. I wish I had something witty or definitive to say. I’m just speechless at the shameless classist contempt.

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Received a beautiful pin in the mail today from @PAAUNOW

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@moveincircles Wrote something about this

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Is Maximalism Conservative?

In praise of historicism and hoarding

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Made the mistake of reading a conservative book in a bar in DC. The bartender asked what I was reading and when I showed him the cover he looked at me like I had three heads, like he had seen a ghost, like I was reading a cookbook for cannibals.

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Writers today should think about being more like rappers and less like social workers. We need more swagger and less trepidation.

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I wrote about fashion publishing, political correctness, and class for @RealClearBooks

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People hate it when vital, non-woke language erupts because it reminds them of the freedom they sacrificed for status and moral sanctity.

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“Instead of thinking of nice things I wanted to strip myself of, I thought of my favorite things I could promise myself more of.” I experienced genuine pleasure while reading this refreshing and funny piece by @karaalyskennedy

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An ode to smoking

Most people you ask will have a great smoking area story. I was deflowered in one, which I thought couldn’t be beat

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New post on my Stack about addiction, the internet, frustration, and fulfillment.

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“American workers are intensely tired of getting, well, railroaded by libertarian economic ideology that treats them as cogs in the free-market machine rather than human beings whose dignity, family lives, and communities matter.” Nice piece by @Chris_Griz in @NewsweekOpinion

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Republicans: Our Future Is Not With Free Markets But With the Working Class

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“America, a Prophecy,” by William Blake, 1793

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What is with the word “align?” It’s a new favorite of the language police. It’s used to describe alliances like the convergence of left-right populism, as well as to encourage submission to new terminology. Even had someone ask me what time I could “align” for a job interview.

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There is peace and freedom in rural areas. There is dignity in patriotism. And there is great solace in religion. The negative judgment passed on country life by the media and ruling classes is one of the great misunderstandings of our time.

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They don’t actually care about representing us: they only care that we affirm their mindset.

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Just walked by a dude wearing a shirt that said “DO THE WORK” in capital letters and another dude taking multiple photographs of his sandwich in the park. We live in an age of idiocy.

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@angrybklynmom @MaudMaron @bariweiss Furthermore, why should adults be expected to do this in the workplace?

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I want to move to West Virginia.

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@sullydish Good band name 🎸

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New post on my Stack about Dries Van Noten, the great Belgian designer whose last show took place in Paris three weeks ago.

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I enjoyed this essay by @BovyMaltz in @hedgehogreview

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The Hedgehog Review

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Now out from the paywall: @BovyMaltz on sex positivity.

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Mental health “experts” who defend lockdowns and excuse their effect on youth by saying “oh don’t worry, their depression/anxiety/suicidal thoughts can all be treated with pharmaceuticals” are beyond twisted

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“Finding yourself” is ultimately an empty enterprise. It is far more beautiful and nourishing to try and find God instead. He already knows everything you are meant to be.

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Interesting and provocative article by @carmelelizabeth on how female dominion of the cultural realm is a “natural outgrowth of the female relation to beauty.”

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A Battle of the Sexes

If America’s women want men to change, they’ll need to change, too, for the sexes rise and fall together.

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@BradWilcoxIFS @TheAtlantic “Self” is the God in this worldview— the ultimate thing that must always be “found.” It’s also interesting that these sentiments seem to be an exclusively feminine phenomenon. Have any men written about leaving a marriage in order to “find themselves?”

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2016.

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I keep dreaming of moving to West Virginia.

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The point of kink and various forms of imaginative and alternative (adult, consensual — duh) sexuality is the thrill of the illicit. The need to be sanctioned and approved of by normals is weak and robs such experiences of their allure.

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“Writers are now expected to identify with a community and to write as its representatives … Politicians and activists are representatives. Writers are individuals.” Always good to re-read this essay by George Packer.

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Living in the Countryside, Taschen, 2003

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Had to get something off my chest

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The RETVRN Fallacy

It's all Real America

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@asgribbin “Where diverse … political positions are welcome.” Uh-huh. Sure.

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I will always be on the side of freedom of expression no matter which “party” defends it.

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@wesyang A sure sign of civilizational decline

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I have nothing to say about Kyle Rittenhouse except that he looks like a Caravaggio.

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I wrote about Bill Maher’s new book, “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You,” for the @dcexaminer

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Bill Maher’s case for mediation in the national divorce - Washington Examiner

Even though I’m a religious person, I’ve always had a soft spot for Bill Maher.

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I’m with her

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Proud to be an American, today and every day

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Excited to share my review of John Robb’s incredibly detailed “The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth” in this week’s @dcexaminer

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I might be more of a Romantic Conservative than a Classical Liberal

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I appreciate IDW attitudes toward art and freedom of expression but really don't fuck with that faction's seeming total lack of economic ideas that would alleviate the atrocious suffering and pain of millions of disenfranchised Americans.

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@ChrisLXXXVI Yes

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Against Partnership

Against sterility

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“I think the ultimate answer is spiritual renewal. I am, after all, a pentacostal. The elite class wants public winsomeness and sophistication but regular people crave revival.” Brilliant thread.

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Wokal Distance

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25/ Threat to our civilization from wokeness and leftist appeasement of wokeness is overstated. And I think the ultimate answer is spiritual renewal. I am, after all, a pentacostal. The elite class wants public winsomeness and sophistication but regular people crave revival...

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I wrote about the pharmaceutical industry, Wuthering Heights, and why I will always be an Evangelical.

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I haven't been on here in a while. I miss some of you, but my soul feels better.

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I wrote about the passing of Vivienne Westwood, the drenching of fashion media in DNC sauce, and why the word ‘partnership’ makes my insides curdle.

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Important article: “Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s” 👀

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@wesyang Thanks Wesley… “even the most fair-minded writer must sometimes twist the rhetorical knife so that the distracted average reader, skimming along in multitasking mode, is jolted into actually engaging the argument at hand.”

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“You will know utilitarians by their mistaking of art for political activity, for community-building, for therapy.” An excellent and timely piece by @asgribbin

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The Artist and the Censor

An embrace of the art for art’s sake ideal is the greatest defense for artists against self-censorship. Those who defend art from moralizing or censure—who accept the reality of art’s autonomy—are...

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I wrote a lil’ piece about food photography, Sarah Palin’s butch lewk, and how much I fucking love Aaron Copland

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Futch country and cuisine settings

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If you get the feeling that something you are writing is deeply unhinged, embarrassing, poorly written and should not be shared, does that mean it's the good shit or the bad shit?

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@cspanwj @APA @mitchprinstein It is lockdowns that have created the youth mental health crisis, not the pandemic itself.

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Simply owning a peony makes you feel that you possess a luxury. And God makes millions of them.

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@WhitlockJason @ShemekaMichelle This is so powerful. 🔥

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@DouthatNYT I loved this piece. Thank you for writing it.

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@lwoodhouse Another creepy word these people use constantly: “align”

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It used to be taboo to talk about politics at work, but normal to meet romantic partners at work. It is now de rigueur to talk about politics at work (as long as one has the approved opinions), and taboo to meet romantic partners at work.

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I wrote about mental health medication, religious freedom, the healing power of sex, and charismatic Christianity.

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Content warning: no nuance

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@katrosenfield Thanks, really admire you

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Is somebody gonna match my freak?

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I have a compulsive habit of saving worms I see drying on the sidewalk and returning them to a nice grassy spot in the nearby park. It gives me great pleasure to see them burrowing into the damp Earth where they belong.

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WSJ quiz > Buzzfeed quiz

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On why I never had any hope of being politically correct.

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The Young and the Restless

A family history

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I called it! That took less than three months 🇺🇸 via @nytimes

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How long until the American spirit itself is classified as some form of Oppositional Defiant Disorder?

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Genuine aesthetic achievement and attention to social responsibility are incompatible.

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@galexybrane @tabletmag Spot-on. Thank you for writing this. 💥🎯💯

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A fantastic defense of aesthetic experience from @asgribbin . “There will always be artists who are, and those who are not, corruptible.”

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How Moral Panic Has Debased Art Criticism

The modern wave of moral panic has reduced the great works of art & corresponding art criticism to ethical message delivery systems.

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“We each have a spirit life that does not heed society.” A brilliant essay by @asgribbin against the “results-based management of aesthetic experience” and all that “domesticates” and “sanitizes:”

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Nelson County, Kentucky

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@MotherEarthNews So cute!

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What if the "I'm leaving my corrupt media organization in order to speak freely" essay is actually the mirror image of the "I'm divorcing my husband in order to find myself" essay? Same energy. I want to read something by someone who decides to stay somewhere.

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Pissing outside in the woods is so much more satisfying than pissing anywhere else.

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@conor64 This was interesting and balanced. I’d consider voting for DeSantis and I voted for Bernie in 2016. I appreciate his opposition to vaccine mandates. Do you think the conservative elite would really embrace him?

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@MAJTOURE @cspanwj Really enjoyed your commentary! 🇺🇸

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@DeAngelisCorey Wow. Hard disagree.

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Maximalist interiors

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ACAB: Atypical Conservatives Are Beautiful

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Artists should not be required to have correct opinions in order to perform, paint, or write. Being an artist has nothing to do with morality.

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@olivertraldi This was good because it talked about women’s own role in their fucked up loneliness. It’s pretty unusual to become a femcel by accident.

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Are there any newspapers/magazines/online platforms that publish longform feature writing that is fair minded/favorable toward conservatives and the rural working class? Like New Yorker/Atlantic quality artistic writing, but from a right-populist perspective?

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I would like to dance in the light of the fire from the sacrifice of 10,000 New Yorker tote bags

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“My demons, like all people’s demons, cannot be disentangled from who I am. No precise surgical removal, leaving only the strengths, is possible.” Incredible essay on the danger of female sexual power by @Celestemarcus3

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings - Salmagundi Magazine

— _For my mother_ I She was lithe, slim, and so pale that when her cheeks flushed the pink seemed almost painted in watercolor onto h...

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My emotional life is none of the government’s business

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Up next-- American Psychological Association CEO Arthur Evans discusses a recommendation by a government task force that all adults under 65 should be routinely screened for anxiety. Watch live here:

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“The real political choice, about which Orwell had no hesitation, was whether to join the intellectuals in their work of destruction, or to stand by the ordinary people in defending their country in its hour of need.” —Roger Scruton

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To me, “rural” as a political identity means a lot more than Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative.

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I believe in God and the re-enfranchisement of the middle and working class

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