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The recent spike in silver prices has been framed, predictably, as a kind of vindication. On social media, metallists celebrate while mocking cryptocurrency advocates; old debates are resurrected as though price action itself had rendered a philosophical verdict. But this framing misses the point entirely. Silver is not “winning.” Bitcoin is not “losing.” What is…

Once upon a time, Hollywood used to produce movies. Real movies, that is. They were like serious novels but on celluloid. They were movies that explored the depths of the human condition, with its soaring peaks and dreadful valleys. It was a time when formidable creativity was placed at the service of truth and beauty….

Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Patriarch of Constantinople. Discourse on the Epiphany, 2 I am not able to restrain the outbursts of my happiness. I feel changed and elated. I forget my…