“IT’S NOW THE January new moon of 2026, the opposite, shadow side of that summer solstice moon in Lewis. I have since retreated into the forest, read all the myths, and finally cracked the code of these stones, of this interstellar divine union between the moon and the solstice sun. We’ll now embark across the ocean, but before we do, I’ll tell you, the stars exist inside each of us still.” —Sean Thor Conroe (@stconroe) metropolitanreview.org/p/sta…

“Vico’s innovation was to realize that no, it was a much more savage and barbaric world back then, and no myth sticks unless it has a tangible, social function, and so the parsing through of ancient myths, for him, was as much a humanities or literary task as it was anthropological, with an understanding of community-forming functions being necessary to decipher a given myth, and thus requiring disparate, seemingly haphazard forms of research and a great imagination. And humility, as well, a clear-eyed view of ourselves, since if we could have been barbaric in the distant past, we of course could still be today, no matter what civilized, humanistic beacons of enlightenment values we view ourselves as.” —Sean Thor Conroe (@stconroe) metropolitanreview.org/p/sta…