Secret Third Thing

Conservative Culture Isn’t Real (ft. Dave Greene)

Further reading: * All of Dave Greene's essays: "Letters from Fiddler's Greene [https://fiddlersgreene.substack.com/]." * Dave's YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/@TheDistributist].

Timothée Chalamet Is Right About Art (ft. Suzy Weiss)

Further reading: * "Timothée Chalamet & Matthew McConaughey [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=424w9fJRgYk]" by Variety & CNN Town Hall. * "The Case Against Aesthetic Castration [https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-case-against-aesthetic-castration/]" by Adam Lehrer (Compact). * "Marty Supreme mirrors Timothée Chalamet’s desire [https://spectator.com/article/marty-supreme-mirrors-timothee-chalamet-desire/]" by Germán Saucedo (The Spectator) * "It’s Over for Anthony Bourdain’s Fanboys [https://www.thefp.com/p/suzy-weiss-please-take-food-less-seriously]" by Suzy Weiss (The Free Press)

Dimes Square: An Oral History (ft. Nick Allen)

Further reading: * "Frontier Cities [https://im1776.com/frontier-cities/]" by Nick Allen (IM-1776). * "New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/nyc-catholicism-dimes-square-religion.html]" by Julia Yost (New York Times). * Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right [https://www.amazon.com/Furious-Minds-Making-MAGA-Right/dp/0691255261?tag=firstthings20-20] by Laura K. Field. * "The Party Politics of Sovereign House" [https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-politics-of-sovereign-house] by Emma Green (New Yorker) * "Reconstructing the Mystical Feminine from the Ashes of the Feminine Mystique" [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/17-anna-khachiyan-reconstructing-the-mystical/id1469999563?i=1000460365533] (The Portal)

The Fanfiction Reckoning (ft. Veronica Clarke)

Further reading: * "The Fanfic Temptation [https://firstthings.com/the-fanfic-temptation/]" by Veronica Clarke. * "The Goon Squad [https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/]" by Daniel Kolitz. * The Absolute Degeneracy of Modern Writing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffvRhsViyIQ&list=WL&index=13] by The Second Story.