Archive - Luke Burgis Newsletter

Cold, Achey Bones

Good riddance to January—and an invitation.

Feb 1 •

January 2025

Epiphany and the Modern World

Lessons from the Magi—and tracking the new star rising in the east.

Jan 13 •

December 2024

Liturgical Resistance to Mimetic Contagion

Lecture by Michael Matheson Miller on René Girard and Dietrich von Hildebrand

Dec 31, 2024 •

59:46

Martin Girard on his Dad, René Girard

Remarks from René Girard's Son, Martin, at our 2023 conference.

Dec 27, 2024 •

21:46

Battle for the Real

The courage to choose being.

Dec 23, 2024 •

Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard

A new documentary about one the greatest thinkers of the 20th century

Dec 16, 2024 •

2:03

November 2024

Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti-AI

On the mimetic machinations of the discourse.

Nov 16, 2024 •

From my collected poems of 2011-2012

Nov 3, 2024 •

October 2024

I Came to Cast Fire

My foreword to a new book on René Girard by Fr. Elias Carr

Oct 22, 2024 •

Trialogue #1 — The Limits of Rationality

Robin Hanson, James Cham and Zohar Atkins discuss the limits and possibilities of reason, and the implications of AI.

Published on Cluny Journal • Oct 17, 2024

Introducing CLUNY

A place for people building the real.

Oct 15, 2024 •

How to Ruin a Great Conversation

A Guest Essay by Brian Daskam

Oct 9, 2024

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