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Oct 22, 2024 | 
read.lukeburgis.com | Luke Burgis
I am excited to share this book cover and foreword for Father Elias Carr’s forthcoming book “I Came to Cast Fire”, out November 14. It’s an accessible and powerful introduction to the ideas of René Girard. I had the honor of writing the foreword, which you will find below with permission from the publisher. Today I am off to Italy for a week to host the first Cluny retreat.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
read.lukeburgis.com | Luke Burgis
For the past 20 years or so I have had the privilege of living in close friendships with people who are willing to talk about things that matter. We have developed the habit of meeting together, mostly in living rooms, to talk about what it means to live well as human beings. In our years together we have enjoyed searching discussions and lively debates. We’ve also learned several ways to ruin a great conversation. Here are just a few:Replace curiosity with curiositas.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
aei.org | Jonah Goldberg |Luke Burgis
Luke Burgis, author and professor of business at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship, grants Jonah a well-deserved break from punditry with a crash course in mimetic theory. René Girard takes center stage as Luke and Jonah discuss the roots of human desire; how such desires lead to tribalism, conflict, and violence; and the relationship between mimetic processes and social discord.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Luke Burgis
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
theblaze.com | Luke Burgis
I spent nearly five years, several of them in Italy, seriously discerning a religious vocation. One year, I went on a retreat at a monastery in Umbria, where I got to know the abbot during my five-day stay.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
thepublicdiscourse.com | Alexandra Davis |Luke Burgis
In this month’s Q and A, managing editor Alexandra Davis interviews Luke Burgis, author of the popular Substack publication “The Luke Burgis Newsletter (formerly, ‘Anti-Mimetic’)” and the book Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (St. Martin’s Press, 2021). He is currently writing the forthcoming book The One and the Ninety-Nine: Coercion, Conformity, and the Courage for Truth (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Luke Burgis |Todd Rose |Amishi Jha
TODD ROSE: Technology allows a scale and speed of opinion creation that is extremely seductive to our brain. LUKE BURGIS: Social media has thrust us all onto the head of a pin, socially speaking, existentially speaking. We all exist in this world where we can tweet at somebody, even if they're on the other side of the planet, even if they have a lot more money than we do. We can still compete with them on engagement.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
luke.medium.com | Luke Burgis
In front of many of the questions that confront me in my daily life, or the attempts by others to get me to “take a position” on things that I have scarcely had time to even think about, I’ll say this: I don’t have a position, I have a disposition. The right disposition is the fundamental key to good discernment — the way in which you let the truth unfold and reveal itself, and the way in which you train your perception to be ready to receive it when it does.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
luke.medium.com | Luke Burgis
It sometimes comes upon a man a stroke of insight, the full realization that he must fulfill a noble task which others may regard as silly or insignificant, such as braving a trip alone to a Washington, DC, Whole Foods at 5pm (if hell exists…) to buy sour cream for the chili he has just made, which he refuses to serve to his family without. You, dear reader, surely have those small things which you refuse to compromise or concede. Don’t you? I have many.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
lukeburgis.com | Luke Burgis
Nearly everyone (unconsciously) assumes there’s a straight line between them and the things they want. >> I wake up one day and “suddenly” decide that I want to run a marathon—amazingly, all of my friends had a similar realization when they hit their mid-thirties, too.
