The Culturist ✓
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"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." An independent culture publication — read / support us here 👇
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This is not Italy, but Indiana!
Some of the most majestic churches on Earth were built in the United States, not too long ago. This is the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame, IN. https://t.co/ydrtKiWmpU
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In architecture, more is more. https://t.co/Xo2otiK5ai
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This is the best account on X right now by some margin. Getting thousands of people to read the great books together.
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These 15 books will give you a better education than almost any school curriculum in the West today.
It is now normal to go from Pre-K to PhD without reading a word of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, or Shakespeare. This is a civilizational failure.
Our book
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@the_culturist_ That's why Screwtape is so terrifying, he's distracting you to death in a way, all while making no bones about what he's doing.
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@the_culturist_ If the enemy cannot tempt you to sin, he merely needs to distract you from the good -- so prevalent today. Screwtape's is an excellent read
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@the_culturist_ Lewis was a real one. https://t.co/6Z9yrr8xtu
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Precisely C.S. Lewis's point in The Screwtape Letters: the enemy doesn't need to ruin you, he only needs to distract you.
Screwtape finds that a reliable way to lead a patient to hell is to distract him with jargon, for instance. Have the patient evaluate ideas not by their http
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@the_culturist_ Pure beauty ✨ https://t.co/270eeG8vQS
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@the_culturist_ Or this…looks at his fingers digging into her flesh. https://t.co/Bo5JACOytW
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This is one of the best things happening on X right now.
A slow read-along of Plato's Republic. Instant follow 👇
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@the_culturist_ On this masterpiece I carried out a long, unpublished and unprecedented investigation
With still no answers
If anyone is interested in this incredible rabbit hole that starts with Italian chiseling and ends in the Canadian ice… 👇
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Imagine starting with a block of stone and ending up with this... https://t.co/eV0xlLwK7J
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This book will change your life.
It is one of the most influential works of Western Civilization... and we are about to read it together!
Today, we're launching the Ascend Book Club on Substack — our new, monthly book club.
Our read of Plato's Republic begins Oct 6. This will
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Simone Weil’s greatest insight was that attention is the foundation of morality and that letting your attention span degrade is the first step on the road to hell
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This is actually the most important account on X right now.
Should have a million followers.
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REMEMBER: once your culture is gone, it isn't coming back.
Government education has failed to teach the Great Books of the West for decades. Deliberately failed.
That's why we started an independent group to study the Western canon, together. We're reading the books that form h
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Dostoevsky once stood before this painting in Basel: Holbein's "Dead Christ."
It depicts Christ's emaciated, decaying body so convincingly that it shook Dostoevsky to his core. He stood paralyzed before it until his wife dragged him away, and he later wrote it into his novel htt
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This is a significant one... our next book club read has been decided:
Dostoevsky's "The Idiot".
This is a tremendously powerful novel and one of Dostoevsky's great works. An excellent one for us to tackle together.
We'll be reading it over the next 6-7 weeks, and discussing h
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Most people don't know this, but you can actually fix your attention span just by reading one long, phenomenal book again.
We're reading East of Eden in our book club right now. https://t.co/dIA3tjpTtI
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"A time may come soon, when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."
—J.R.R. Tolkien https://t.co/s3y
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I am now often called Denethor. OK, my response This metaphor makes you what, a hobbit? Well, Mr hairy feet, Helm's Deep surrendered years ago, the elves have shoved off , Gandalf's working for the Equal Opportunities Commission, the ents have been ground to powder, Gondor has
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Good news: people are forming book clubs on X to study foundational works of theology and philosophy.
Humanity is not done yet. Join this group reading Augustine's City of God:
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This is big. We're about to start our most important read-along so far:
Augustine's City of God.
This is a foundational work of Western Civilization. Maybe THE greatest work of Christian thought. If you've been on the fence about joining, now's the time.
Instead of breaking ht
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Brilliant article on Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic tradition.
Well worth a read:
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Can violence image God’s love?
Many are turned off by the stories of Flannery O’Connor, as they see her tales as brutal, grotesque, and unsettling.
And, well, all of that is true.
But O’Connor is a spiritual master—a teacher of the soul—and the brutality in her Southern Gothic
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This is the National Architects Union headquarters in Bucharest.
It tells you everything you need to know about the current state of the field of architecture. https://t.co/qJyKiPgJRo
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A culture that believes in eternity builds things differently. https://t.co/1AK0xPRaht
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@the_culturist_ My brother, we need more people reading real books instead of audiobooks
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@the_culturist_ We're about to start our next book!
Now is the very best time to join...
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Against accounts of the same size
32 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views96 345this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %6.06%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %1.23%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 96 345 | 14 648 | 6.58× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 6.06% | 0.74% | 8.19× |
| Engagement rate | 1.23% | 0.70% | 1.76× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes75.0%75 935 in total
Reposts8.0%8 114 in total
Replies1.5%1 519 in total
Quotes0.6%637 in total
Bookmarks14.9%15 042 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 19 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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