Essays

• Woke: Cthulhu Awakens (8/10/2019)
• There Is No Such Thing As Rule of Law (8/6/2019)
• Berlioz: Musical High Romanticism (7/31/2019)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Causation is Stochastic (7/31/2019)
• Delius: On the Heights (7/30/2019)
• Conflation of Ends is Confusion of Means & of Men (7/30/2019)
• Nicolas Berdyaev: The Person, Freedom, and Inequality (7/25/2019)
• What Cannot But Be Carried Into Practice Must Perforce Be Veridical (7/25/2019)
• Apologetical Weapons: Projection Manifests a Conviction of Personal Evil (7/24/2019)
• What Cannot Be Carried Into Practice Cannot Be Veridical (7/24/2019)
• There Is Always a Party Line (7/20/2019)
• Apologetical Weapons: It’s Not About You (7/19/2019)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Only the Actual Is Apprehensible (7/16/2019)
• The Optimal Tonlieu (7/14/2019)
• Happiness is the Pockety-Pock-Pock of a Merlin Engine (7/14/2019)
• Is Traditional Culture Even Possible Henceforth? (7/11/2019)
• Monstrous Theologies: The Theme of Anti-Sacrifice in the Sci-Fi Pulps – Part II (7/3/2019)
• Monstrous Theologies: The Theme of Anti-Sacrifice in the Sci-Fi Pulps – Part I (7/3/2019)
• The Sigil of the Orthosphere (7/2/2019)
• The Notion of the Social Construct Is Itself a Social Construct (6/28/2019)
• The Age of Disorientation (6/26/2019)
• The Sophomoric Appeal of Improper Reduction (6/21/2019)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Facts Are Fossils of Acts (6/16/2019)
• Upstate Consolation University to Ban Friendship, Create Innovative Bookless Library (6/15/2019)
• What It Is Like To Be a Secondary Cause (6/15/2019)
• Illiminative Materialism (6/14/2019)
• A Head on a Pike: François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand on the Revolution (6/11/2019)
• Ockham’s Razor, the Gordian Knot & the Thomist Marlinspike (6/9/2019)
• Life among the Ruins (5/27/2019)
• T. Lothrop Stoddard: From the French Revolution in San Domingo to the Menace of the Underman (5/27/2019)
• The Music of E. J. Moeran (5/27/2019)
• The Good Thing About Bad Architecture (5/12/2019)
• On Divine Omniscience versus Creaturely Partiscience (5/9/2019)
• Government is Always an Owned Business (5/1/2019)
• The Simultaneous Emergence of Language & Religion (4/29/2019)
• The One Basic Thing (4/28/2019)
• Credo: Passus (4/20/2019)
• A Westerner Reads the Koran (Second Surah) (4/19/2019)
• The Argument From the Enmity of Our Enemies (4/16/2019)
• The Fallacy of Inapt Abstraction (4/6/2019)
• Heterodoxy ipso facto Disenchants the World (4/3/2019)
• The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner (4/2/2019)
• Corporations: Fake, Real, Bad, Good, & Even Holy (3/31/2019)
• The Ctrl-Alt-Del-Right (3/13/2019)
• Outward is Upward: The Anthropology of the Martian Romance (Part II) (3/10/2019)
• Outward is Upward: The Anthropology of the Martian Romance (Part I) (3/10/2019)
• Freedoms of Speech & of Religion Open & Allow the Race to the Bottom (2/5/2019)
• Respecting Authority is the Reciprocal & Implicate of Subsidiarity (1/30/2019)
• The Argument from the Implicity of Ultimacy in Reality per se (1/29/2019)
• The Profession of Profession versus the Care of Our Young (1/23/2019)
• Meditations & Divagations on Two Sonnets (1/11/2019)
• Be Not Afraid (12/24/2018)
• Mimesis is Logically Implicit in Game Theory; &c. (12/13/2018)
• The Later Thought of Rene Girard (12/10/2018)
• The Modern Cosmopolitan Cult Tends to the Cult of Moloch (12/4/2018)
• How We Inherit & Propagate the Fall; & How We Can Begin to Stop (11/29/2018)
• On Backward Causation (11/20/2018)
• Two Theories of the Renaissance – Berdyaev’s and Spengler’s (11/8/2018)
• The Acid Eating at Tradition is Not Capitalism, But Cheap Information (11/8/2018)
• The Corollary of the Golden Rule (10/30/2018)
• Our Present Crisis: Daddy Issues Writ Large (10/28/2018)
• Sovereigns Lose the Mandate of Heaven When They Promulgate Bad Laws (10/20/2018)
• An Hypothesis about the Origins of the Modern Sacrificial Cult (10/19/2018)
• Christian Soteriology Proper Forestalls Specious Holiness Spirals (10/17/2018)
• The Indispensable Political Primacy of Sacerdotal Hierarchy (10/16/2018)
• Identity — The Future of a Paradox (10/11/2018)
• A Concrete Exemplification of the Inexorable Internal Logic of the Fall (10/3/2018)
• The Drama of the Fall (9/30/2018)
• The Inexorable Internal Logic of the Fall (9/29/2018)
• An Eu Logion of Zippy Catholic (9/25/2018)
• The Sufficient Conditions of Social Trust (9/18/2018)
• Jorge Luis Borges and Karen Blixen on Ideology and Violence (9/1/2018)
• The Pope’s Commission (8/30/2018)
• Upstate Consolation University Extends Diversity Recruitment to Triffids (8/18/2018)
• The Sorts of Liberalism Are Attempted Implementations of Nominalism (8/14/2018)
• What Tends to Happen at the End of a Vicious Cycle (8/12/2018)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance (1852) and Philip K. Dick’s VALIS (1981) (8/11/2018)
• Gustave Le Bon on the World in Revolt (8/8/2018)
• Robert Edgerton’s Sick Societies (1992) Revisited (7/30/2018)
• Melville’s Typee (1846) and the Case for Civilization (7/27/2018)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Yet More on Angels (7/12/2018)
• Fixing Popular Legislature (7/11/2018)
• Consciousness & Time: Part II: A Little Consciousness (7/10/2018)
• Consciousness & Time: Part I: Vulcans, Zombies, & Desert Islands (7/9/2018)
• Berdyaev on Culture and Christianity (7/9/2018)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: More on Angels (7/8/2018)
• The Tone Poems of Jean Sibelius (7/6/2018)
• Jesus Is In His Person the Only Possible Mundane Fulfillment of the Law (6/27/2018)
• Puritanism Again (6/26/2018)
• What is Puritanism? (6/21/2018)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Archetypes, Forms, & Angels (6/19/2018)
• The Visionary Music of Sir Arnold Trevor Bax (6/13/2018)
• The Arms Race to the Degenerate Bottom (6/7/2018)
• Upstate Consolation University to Equip Classrooms with Sensitivity Airbags (5/30/2018)
• The Kali Yuga: René Guénon’s Traditionalist Critique of Quantitative Modernity (5/16/2018)
• Nicolas Berdyaev on the Despiritualization of the West (4/27/2018)
• Victimary Rhetoric and the Politics of Decolonization in V. S. Naipaul’s Mimic Men (1967) (4/22/2018)
• Mika Waltari’s Dark Angel (1952) – A Novel for Our Time (4/15/2018)
• Jack Vance’s Wyst: Alastor 1716 (A Socialist Dystopia) (4/10/2018)
• The “Great War” and Tyranny: E. E. Cummings and John Dos Passos on the Destruction of Order 1914-18 (3/27/2018)