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Richard Wilbur's Answer to Dionysian Hedonism

April 4th, 2025 | 5 min read

By Collin Slowey and Isabella Hsu

Our culture wars continue to rage. It is a state of extremes breeding a crisis of extremism. As often happens in crisis, we tend to recreate the past. Dionysian hedonism is alive and well in the ethos of pleasure-seeking progressivism; in response, post-Christian “neoreactionaries” are resurrecting the stern moralities of ancient Greece and Rome.

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Collin Slowey and Isabella Hsu

Collin Slowey is a writer on politics, culture, and religion whose work has been featured in The American Conservative, The Dallas Morning News, and Public Discourse, among other outlets. Isabella Hsu is a poet, writer, and editor. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The San Diego Reader, Ekstasis, The St. Austin Review, and others. She is assistant executive editor of Dappled Things. Her work can be found at marginaliajournal.substack.com.

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