Academia: Is It Too Female?

No, both sexes need initiation into a civilizational story

8 hrs ago • Connor Patrick Wood

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Read the Canon

Want maturity? Craving roots? Learn the lore of your culture

May 5 • Connor Patrick Wood

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March 2026

Poetry and Science Are Just as Incompatible as It Seems

Science is abstraction and theory, poetry is sensory detail

Mar 31 • Connor Patrick Wood

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February 2026

How to Turn Boys Into Men

Rites of passage could (and should?) still be a thing

Feb 27 • Connor Patrick Wood

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January 2026

Rome: A Review

Like the Catholic Church, the Eternal City is tacky, ancient, and glorious

Jan 31 • Connor Patrick Wood

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December 2025

Folk Cultures Make Better Models

Overfitting and cultural stagnation result from too much top-down control

Dec 31, 2025 • Connor Patrick Wood

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November 2025

The Stunning Decrepit Mansion of Catholicism

It's enjoying a resurgence. Just don't expect all the plumbing to work

Nov 30, 2025 • Connor Patrick Wood

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October 2025

Folk Culture Is the Basis for "Culture"

We're stagnating because we ate all the seed corn

Oct 31, 2025 • Connor Patrick Wood

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September 2025

Some Recent Poems in Various Places

What I do at night when everyone else is productively sleeping

Sep 30, 2025 • Connor Patrick Wood

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Why I Stopped Being Vegetarian

Adulthood means accepting the blood guilt of living

Sep 17, 2025 • Connor Patrick Wood

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August 2025

Podcast Appearance: Crisis and Fraud in Higher Education

From smart weird nerds to status-climbing smooth operators…and back again

Aug 30, 2025 • Connor Patrick Wood

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The Stories Our Buildings Tell

One way or another, where they draw our eyes is where our attention follows

Aug 15, 2025 • Connor Patrick Wood

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