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Recommended by Ben Boychuk

EVERYDAY DRINKING

By Jason Wilson

A wide world of wine, spirits, travel, and culture from the author of Godforsaken Grapes and Boozehound.

A real Gentleman of the Swig.

- Ben Boychuk

Prufrock

By Micah Mattix

The best in books, arts, and ideas.

One of the best books and culture newsletters around. Well worth the subscription!

- Ben Boychuk

Matriarch Goals

By Lane Scott

A Pioneering Home Companion Matriarch is a study of how to build new spaces between home and city: village, town square, parish, culture, mores, friends, small business, third spaces. We are the new pioneers rebuilding and revitalizing American society.

Lane Scott is one of the finest writers you've never heard of — yet. Subscribe to her Substack so you can discover what you've been missing.

- Ben Boychuk

The Abbey of Misrule

By Paul Kingsnorth

Do not be conformed to this world

Paul Kingsnorth is helping us think through our postmodern age. A humanist for inhuman times.

- Ben Boychuk

Tell Me How This Ends

By Chris Bray

Elite class ritual performance, cultural and political decline, military culture, and the dismal state of American journalism.

I read Chris Bray to laugh instead of sob through the unfolding civilizational catastrophe. You should, too!

- Ben Boychuk

The Total State

By Auron MacIntyre

Commenting on politics and culture

Racket News

By Matt Taibbi

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.