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Adrian Gaty's avatar

I also would like to take this opportunity to clarify recent scurrilous reporting. My family’s historic ties to the Hungarian coffee house industry are in no way influencing my financial support of this substack. We cut all ties to the Hungarian dessert business decades ago, approximately at the same time we fled the country for our lives, and have no residual fiduciary relationship with any sugary magyar delicacies. Mr Dreher’s praise of local Budapest confectionery remains, to my knowledge, entirely spontaneous and sincere, and any imputations to the contrary in the corrupt corporate media are slanderous lies, likely linked to a malicious whisper campaign that I suspect is being masterminded by my ancestral enemy, the American Academy of Pediatrics. Thank you for the opportunity to clarify the situation.

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Geoff Guth's avatar

Personally, I hadn’t even heard about the Vanity Fair article. I always just assumed that your departure from TAC was for fairly boring and mundane reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of your work.

I’d like to go on record saying that your writing about Tarkovsky and St. Galgano is some of the best and most interesting stuff you write; no-one else is doing anything similar as far as I know. Some might call it weird, but then I’ve always liked weird. More to the point: I love how it speaks to your exploration and deepening of your faith. I’ve told you before how inspirational this old agnostic finds that to be.

Anyways, thanks are indeed due to Mr. and Mrs. Ahmanson for helping to keep you in business all these years. While you have your hobbyhorses, and while we have some vehement disagreements, I’ve often found you to be one of the most thoughtful writers on the right in this country and a voice for a conservatism that is far more appealing to me that a lot of what is on offer from that end of the political spectrum.

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