Essays

• José Ortega y Gasset on Self-Satisfaction and Specialization (5/25/2020)
• Raising the Fallen World: Richard Wagner and the Scenic Imagination (5/16/2020)
• Contract : Society :: Cell : Person (5/10/2020)
• Our Deepest Loves Cannot & Do Not Err (5/5/2020)
• Freedom & Determinism & Time (4/27/2020)
• Creation: A Simple Explanation for Children (4/25/2020)
• Lectures du Printemps (Sélections) (4/22/2020)
• The Duty of a Man to His Men (4/17/2020)
• What Is It Like To Suffer a Preference Cascade? (4/15/2020)
• This Joyful Eastertide (4/12/2020)
• The Worst Good Friday of This Age – So, the Best (4/10/2020)
• Red Mist and Ruins: The Symbolist Prose of Leigh Brackett (4/9/2020)
• Letter To an Investor (4/7/2020)
• Two New-Old Books by Colin Wilson (Eagles and Earwigs and The Ultimate Colin Wilson*) (4/2/2020)
• The Secular Androsphere Begins Its Turn to Christ (3/30/2020)
• Dogmatic Orthodoxy Is the Acme & Basis of Traditionalism (3/30/2020)
• Everything You Do Is Worship (3/29/2020)
• Readings of Winter-Spring (Selections) (3/27/2020)
• Understanding Concupiscence (3/23/2020)
• Of Which We May Speak: Meditations on Irony (3/15/2020)
• Orality, Literacy, and the Tradition (3/7/2020)
• H. G. Wells as Religious Thinker (3/3/2020)
• The Press That Cried Wolf (3/1/2020)
• More of a Winter’s Reading (Selections) (2/27/2020)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: The Leap of Faith (2/22/2020)
• Three Late-Antique Narratives (Part II) (2/9/2020)
• Three Late-Antique Narratives (Part I) (2/9/2020)
• A Winter’s Reading (Selections) (1/30/2020)
• Tradition or Meaninglessness? (1/14/2020)
• Profane Kingship Is Finally Moot (1/10/2020)
• Stuart Holroyd, Gnosticism, & the Occult Wave (Part II) (1/2/2020)
• Stuart Holroyd, Gnosticism, & the Occult Wave (Part I) (1/2/2020)
• How To Understand Santa (So That You & Your Children Can Credit Him) (1/1/2020)
• Erich Neumann on Matriarchy, Patriarchy, & Cultural Dissolution (12/29/2019)
• O Star of Wonder (12/24/2019)
• Of Possible Interest (12/13/2019)
• Rosalind Murray on Barbarization (11/30/2019)
• José Ortega y Gasset & Gabriel Marcel on Mass Man (11/17/2019)
• From Promethean Pride to the Holocaustic Imagination: Atlas Shrugged (10/15/2019)
• Christopher Mihm’s Cave Women on Mars (2008), Sex, & the Movies (Beta) (10/12/2019)
• World without Men: A Forgotten Novel of Totalitarian Lesbiocracy by Charles Eric Maine (Beta) (10/12/2019)
• The Wonderful Horrible Integrity of the World (10/2/2019)
• High College Costs, Low Student Achievement, Driven by Warmish Climate-Change Trend – Researchers Say (9/24/2019)
• Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony: Art Transcending Politics (9/10/2019)
• The Allure of Lemuria (Beta) (9/8/2019)
• 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)