Andrew Mitchell

History Professor, Grove City College; member of @ciceroniansoc

"A man is a born historian, or else he is boring"—Ernst Jünger

[Andrew Mitchell @HumoredHumanist]

@JulianWaller @peternmitchell For practicality, Alexander's "A Pattern Language," but for a vision that literally brought me to my knees and tears to my eyes, vols. 1 & 4 of his "Nature of Order"

For E R-H, practically "Camp William James" (by Jack Preiss); for vision-"Fruit of Lips."

[Andrew Mitchell @HumoredHumanist]

@peternmitchell @JulianWaller Together with Christopher Alexander and Eugen Rosenstock-Heussy, Jünger functions as John the Baptist figures for our future era. For now, they remain preparatory voices crying in the wilderness for anyone with ears to hear.

[Andrew Mitchell @HumoredHumanist]

@peternmitchell @JulianWaller Jünger's carefully composed recounting of his literal and metaphorical baptism under fire is not just one of the best military memoirs of all time. The death wrought by the Great War (of men, societies, etc.) becomes the starting point for his long journey to understand Life.

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Something to compliment the reflections of thoughtful scholars such as @Vermeullarmine.

[Andrew Mitchell @HumoredHumanist]

Reading Horton Davies's magisterial Worship & Theology in England and just realized that John Winthrop's prologue to his "Model of Christian Charity" sermon essentially paraphrases the preface to the Anglican homily "On Good Order" (1570), with one fascinating twist—

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The intertwining of Good Order, Obedience & Charity as in Celtic art, makes me wonder: might laws for a Common Good (like books for Common Prayer) be incomprehensible, unattractive, without a renewed understanding, and enacting, of love?

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PART 2: Our second premium essay for the month!

If you read one thing this weekend, read about England's naval mafia! 👇 Link below

[Peter Mitchell @peternmitchell]

Thank you to @MemoryMedieval and @FeignedFlightM for giving me and my brother @HumoredHumanist a chance to tell you all about Edward I's medieval maritime Uber.

https://t.co/7eUo4LVw27

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@Hillsdale and @GroveCtyCollege! How privileged we are to have Dr Mitchell @HumoredHumanist and @peternmitchell writing this article for us.

If this is standard fare then your colleges are putting history back on the map and making it relevant today-something we can agree on.

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This weeks banger is a brothers collab between @peternmitchell and @HumoredHumanist on the medieval gig economy.

Link below to read 👇

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https://t.co/kIZgl4paLD

Evolving from its humble days as a lecture in my History of Piracy class to an exciting collaboration with my remarkable brother (and fellow history-lover) @peternmitchell — enjoy the exciting tale of the Cinque Ports!

Incredibly grateful to Feigned Flight Magazine
@FeignedFlightM for their visionary endeavor!

[Andrew Mitchell @HumoredHumanist]

Charity (and its concomitant activity, Redemption) being P.G. Wodehouse's dominant motif, it seems remarkable that even Rupert Baxter could be redeemed:

Yet, in The Girl in Blue, written (1971) only 4 years before his death, protagonist Jerry West, mulls over his guardian angel:

“For some reason he pictured him as smallish with one of those rather sharp faces. ... probably horn-rimmed spectacles and a nervous bustling manner, the sort of fellow who would have made a good confidential secretary to a big financier.”

I know that Baxter is routinely described 45 years earlier as wearing “rimless spectacles” but his service to Pittsburgh millionaire J. Horace Jevons, and his efficient manner is enough to tip the scales for me.

It would be in keeping with Plum to redeem even this erstwhile serpent who long troubled the Edenic Blandings in such a noble fashion.
@inimitablepgw

[Andrew Mitchell @HumoredHumanist]

The late, great Tom Wolfe called out late 20th century "art" not as a life-producing craft, but merely "a visual illustration of theories of art propounded by a select group of critics.”

I wonder how much academic history published today falls into the same category.

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Seeing citizenship this way enhances Christ's advent "in the fullness of time." Is it any wonder that the Founder (& Re-Founder) of the City of God appeared shortly after Octavian claims the title "Princeps" (first citizen) of a Re-Founded Rome?

Food, not just for @NewFounding

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Amidst our current debates over citizenship and immigration (legal or otherwise), as well as educational systems, consider the following definition by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy in 1945:

"[H]e is a citizen who potentially could found a city himself."

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ERH's remarkable 1945 article expands on Lewis's Abolition of Man, anticipates Cristopher Lasch's observation on elite alienation and implements both Ernst Jünger's and @ScottAdamsSays remedies for social renewal.

More to come in my talk at Ciceronian Society! @ciceroniansoc

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@captive_dreamer Most narratives also don't tell you that these prisoners left Madrid in vans deliberately without escort. "Random" militia would then "spontaneously" highjack them and do the killing, so the Republican govt could do even more Pontius Pilate Pretending

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We're in predictive rather than judgmental mode and will be for some time, but I wonder if today's strikes in Iran will be compared to Drake's 1587 raid on Cadíz, "Singeing the King of Spain's beard"

Granted the Ayatollah had more than his beard singed today...will Xi?