Secret Third Thing

In 2022, YouTuber Kane Parsons uploaded a video to the internet titled “The Backrooms (Found Footage).” This was not the first time that the internet had been exposed to the “liminality” as a form of horror, but it was the first time that it went viral. With people trapped in their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in this internet niche space skyrocketed. Now, four years later, then-tw...

Further reading: Maegan's X account . " Lara Trump and Katie Miller Cite Junk Poll About Gen-Z Tradwives ," by Meagan O’Rourke ( Reason ) NYU Professor Ruby Thelot

Further reading: " Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld ," by Katherine Dee ( New York Times ) " The Kirkification of Our Troubled Times ," by Brady Brickner-Wood ( New Yorker )

Further reading: What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O'Malley If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies , by Eliezer Yudkowsky Work in Progress: Confessions of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, corporate tool, and priest – A Funny, Wise, and Inspiring Spiritual Memoir , by James Martin

Further reading: Kelly's X profile Kelly's Substack Secret Ballot

Further reading: " Magnifica Humanitas " by Leo XIV " AI Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing " by Thomas Fowler ( First Things ) " The Future of Reading " by Wessie Du Toit ( First Things ) " A Boomer, But An Augustinian " by Jacob Phillips ( First Things ) " The Pope Should Be Going to War Against A.I. Why Isn’t He?" by Matthew Walther ( New York Times ) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies , by Eliezer Y...

Further reading: All of Dave Greene's essays: " Letters from Fiddler's Greene ." Dave's YouTube channel .

Further reading: " Timothée Chalamet & Matthew McConaughey " by Variety & CNN Town Hall. " The Case Against Aesthetic Castration " by Adam Lehrer ( Compact ). " Marty Supreme mirrors Timothée Chalamet’s desire " by Germán Saucedo ( The Spectator ) " It’s Over for Anthony Bourdain’s Fanboys " by Suzy Weiss ( The Free Press )

Further reading: " Frontier Cities " by Nick Allen (IM-1776). " New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church " by Julia Yost ( New York Times ). Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field. "The Party Politics of Sovereign House" by Emma Green ( New Yorker ) "Reconstructing the Mystical Feminine from the Ashes of the Feminine Mystique" (The Portal)

Further reading: " The Fanfic Temptation " by Veronica Clarke. " The Goon Squad " by Daniel Kolitz. The Absolute Degeneracy of Modern Writing by The Second Story.