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With Both Hands Classics: Great Teacher Onizuka

This is the first installment of what I hope to make a regular feature here at With Both Hands, a reflection on a key work of fiction that I find myself returning to again and again that I will call With Both Hands Classics. For this inaugural edition, let’s

Linkfest 2022-05-12: To Be A Man

Alastair’s Adversaria: A Crisis of Discourse—Part 2: A Problem of Gender I read this a number of years ago, and I came upon it again in the course of another discussion. It is still great. Spotted Toad: The Coin Flip I count the Speckled Amphibian as a Facts

Linkfest 2022-04-08: The Lonely Fight

I recently saw a re-post of Katsuya Terada’s Legend of Zelda illustrations, and it sent me searching for more. Here is a gallery of many of the images Terada created for Nintendo Power magazine. In later years, much would be made of the concept of “multimedia”, using the power

Thumos

The Art of Maniliness has a good post today on Thumos [ θυμός]. It reminded me of something I read just yesterday on James Chastek's Just Thomism, The American Student. Here is the passage from Got Thumos?: Why is it that many men seem so lacking in thumos today?

The Benefits of a Failure of Grit

In my article on Grit, I described my personal failing when I discovered that I really didn't have it in me. This was pretty difficult, but in retrospect I can see I needed to take a journey down the road of ashes. What is the road of ashes?