Nic Rowan
@NicXTempore
Managing Editor, @thelampmagazine. 2024-25 @NovakFellows.
Fare hopping. theamericanconservative.com/confessions-of…
On what issue have you changed your mind 180 degrees?
When I commissioned @juderusso94 to review James Comey’s new thriller about an evil right-wing influencer named “Sam Buchanan,” I told him to have fun with it. Oh, boy, did he ever. commonplace.org/2025/07/24/the…
Worth a read. I have always found it slightly embarrassing to see Christians scouring contemporary art and pop culture for religious imagery and references as evidence of some sort of impending religious revival.
Chris Caldwell's review of Paul Elie's "Last Supper" on sex, art, and religion in the 1980s is the rare kind of essay that leaves you wishing that the reviewer had written the book instead. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
Chris Caldwell's review of Paul Elie's "Last Supper" on sex, art, and religion in the 1980s is the rare kind of essay that leaves you wishing that the reviewer had written the book instead. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
Read the full piece from @NicXTempore here: commonplace.org/2025/07/22/why…
This is because of that 21 Savage fancam
This is because of that 21 Savage fancam
"Bryan Johnson appears luminous, otherworldly, as if the baby in Eraserhead grew up and sprouted a shock of black hair. Were he not the world’s healthiest man, I would think he is sick, very sick," writes @NicXTempore. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
“A mom I know tried to get her teen a job volunteering at an animal shelter, only to discover that it did had absurd rules for workers under 18, like that they couldn’t touch the animals and a parent had to be on site at all times.” commonplace.org/2025/07/16/are…
Our Pope Francis issue is on the rack at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
This is a brilliant intro, captures Francis succinctly: “Perhaps most divisive of all was Francis’s own personality: authoritarian and anarchic, austere and ambiguous; the silence and the noise. He remained, always, La Gioconda: wearing a smile that seemed to—and perhaps…
Some Popes are different. Francis was one such Pope. My biographic introduction to The Lamp's symposium on the last pontificate is online 🔗🔽
In the new issue of @thelampmagazine, I went to one of Bryan Johnson's health summits and learned the secret to living forever. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
"Data science is a tricky field. For results to be meaningful, the data must be carefully selected and intelligently applied. But most importantly, the data must be accurate. And in health, it rarely is."
In the new issue of @thelampmagazine, I went to one of Bryan Johnson's health summits and learned the secret to living forever. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
Too many amusing extracts to post from this thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
I'll take neo-Platonist alchemists trying to discover the Golden Chain of Homer over this stuff any day