Fencing Bear at Prayer

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... seven sins for scouring, six signs for praying , five 5-star reviews , four pairs of shades , three seals of love , two friends-in-arms , and a Fencing Bear in a MILO tree . * Shield Maidens’ Study Guide: Milo, How to be Poor 1. Were you surprised by HTBP? How much of Milo's story did you know before you read his account in HTBP? Did it change your view of Milo? If not, why not? If so, how?  2. What would you say is the main theme of the book? Why is it called “How to Be Poor”? Why does it have the chapters that it does?  3. What was your favorite chapter? Why did you like it? What was your least favorite chapter? Why?  4. If you were to write a book about yourself like “How to Be Poor,” what would it be called? Would you find it hard or easy to write? My questions were just meant as starters, not a quiz!  What would I write my “How to” on? This is what I have been doing w...

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... six signs for praying, five 5-star reviews , four pairs of shades , three seals of love , two friends-in-arms , and a Fencing Bear in a MILO tree . * Not long after Yiannopoulos’s defenestration from Simon & Schuster, Brown wrote a mournful post on Fencing Bear that compared Yiannopoulos’s fate to Christ’s ignominious death on the cross. (The post, titled “Mother and Son,” actually consisted of a quotation from a twelfth-century meditation on the sorrows of the Virgin Mary.) Jeffrey Cohen posted a screengrab of Brown’s post, which in turn got the attention of the New Republic ’s Josephine Livingstone. She contacted Emilio Kourí, chair of the University of Chicago’s history department, to inquire whether Brown’s blog, linked on her Chicago faculty page, “could be considered part of her body of scholarship.” It was apparently a hint that Chicago ought to punish Brown for supporting Yiannopoulos. Kourí repl...

On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... five 5-star reviews, four pairs of shades , three seals of love , two friends-in-arms , and a Fencing Bear in a MILO tree . * Medieval historian Rachel Fulton Brown receives rave course reviews for her classes on Christianity in the Middle Ages, but has also attracted the attention of national news outlets for controversial blog posts praising her friend Milo Yiannopoulos, an alt-right commentator. Yiannopoulos, a former editor with right-wing outlet Breitbart News, wrote articles with incendiary headlines like “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy.” Brown has seemed to delight in the shock Yiannopoulos provokes, recently publishing a blog post detailing “The Art of the Virtuous Troll.” —“ Who’s Who: Professors Iconic, Beloved, and Infamous ,” The Chicago Maroon , September 22, 2019 *  Read the Amazon reviews ! Buy Milo Chronicles ! You can get it on Amazon or direct from the pub...

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... four pairs of shades, three seals of love , two friends-in-arms , and a Fencing Bear in a MILO tree . *  In 2015 Rachel Fulton Brown, an associate professor of medieval history at the University of Chicago, published a post on her blog, Fencing Bear at Prayer, whose title alone—“Three Cheers for White Men”—seemed engineered to raise hackles. Dorothy Kim, then an assistant professor of English at Vassar College, responded in a post of her own, calling Brown’s 228-word, somewhat cheeky paean to the historical upside of white men, which included praising knights for embracing courtly love as an alternative to rape, an example of “white fragility+benevolent sexism.” They’ve been trading jabs ever since, in dueling essays and on Facebook and podcasts. When Kim wrote a warning on the blog “In the Middle” to her colleagues in 2017 about the importance of “not upholding white supremacy in the classroom,” it seemed ...

On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... three seals of love, two friends-in-arms , and a Fencing Bear in a MILO tree . *  [ Milo Chronicles ], long anticipated, is a beacon of light. Written by the esteemed Rachel Fulton Brown, Associate Professor of History at the world-renowned University of Chicago, it sings a song of love, faith, hope and joy. Her lyrical prose invites the reader to enjoy a deep and soulful understanding of one of the most misunderstood public figures of our time. An understanding that only she, knowing and loving Milo as she does, can impart.   Professor Fulton Brown and Milo Yiannopoulos, dissimilar in many ways, are nevertheless soul-bonded in Christ and in their dedication to the fight for Western Civilization. They are a formidable pair, and we are stronger for their having met and joined forces.  A real-life Fairy Tale that instructs and edifies, Milo Chronicles serves as an excellent guide to victory i...

On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... two friends-in-arms, and a Fencing Bear in a MILO tree. *  In September 2016, University of Chicago history professor Rachel Fulton Brown forged an unlikely bond with free speech activist and firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos. Since then, Fulton Brown has celebrated the friendship in dozens of intellectually bracing essays. These Milo Chronicles explain the twists and turns of Yiannopoulos's volatile professional life and recall ghastly encounters with social justice warriors that almost destroyed her career. In this collection, the pair emerge as united by their Catholic faith and a mutual resolve to subdue the vindictive progressive scolds who despise and defame them. Overflowing with tenderness and righteous fury, Fulton Brown's meticulous defenses of Yiannopoulos as a cultural icon—and devoted friend—are part handbook for prospective culture war combatants, and part moving testament to the intense spiritual...

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a Fencing Bear in a MILO tree! You won’t want to miss getting your own copies—one for yourself, many for fellow Milophiles, not to mention the SJWs in your life!  Milo Chronicles: Devotions 2016-2019 is now on sale through  Amazon or direct from the publisher at Castalia House . You can watch Milo and me talk about all my books on Friday Night’s All Right,  with subscription at Censored.tv or on Milo’s YouTube channel . For my continuing adventures with Milo, see the Milo Chronicles .

The link from Milo’s Telegram channel lets them into the chat room, at which the Guardian Dragon greets them with instructions: Welcome, N. Announce yourself with a HAIL QUEEN MILO. Then, read the rules. Some say nothing after their opening “Hail.” Others begin tossing out challenges at once. Everyone wants Milo’s attention—but not all for the same reasons. The e-thots are the least subtle , but then they are women. ( Pro tip : We women aren’t as sneaky as we would like to believe.) Regardless, a pretty woman is almost always able to take over the chat instantly with her selfies and questions, the men leaping either to court her or mock her. I confess myself somewhat in awe of their tactics, even as it drives me nuts how they divert the conversation. Oh, to be able to swan into a saloon and have the men at your feet! The men are harder to read. This being Milo’s chat, many are gay, which means they give off signals to each other that I don’t always catch. Others come ...