Essays

• 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)
• Globalism as Sacrificial Crisis: Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s Mark of the Sacred (3/22/2018)
• Reading Count Gobineau (3/15/2018)
• Moloch is But a Vassal of Our True Enemy (3/12/2018)
• The Form of Forms is Itself Formless (2/26/2018)
• Inequality Before the Law is Natural & Proper to Man (2/21/2018)
• Writing about Literature Revisited (Coleridge) (2/18/2018)
• The Autophagy of Falsehood (2/18/2018)
• Libertarianism Presupposes the Absence of Any Common Cult (2/13/2018)
• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! (2/10/2018)
• The Great Sortition (2/4/2018)
• Nation & Culture Coinhere in Cult (2/3/2018)
• Incarnation & Transubstantiation are Formally Analogous (1/30/2018)
• The Gedanken Policy Test of Christianity (1/24/2018)
• The Resurrection of the Body: A Simple Explanation for Children (1/23/2018)
• Established Sacerdotal Hierarchy Controls for Competitive Holiness Spirals (1/23/2018)
• The Right of Exit Does Not Entail the Right of Entry (1/19/2018)
• Islam Delendam Esse (1/4/2018)
• The Rectification of Grammar (12/18/2017)
• Nations are Ontological Reals (12/10/2017)
• Liberal Sexuality Cannot Work, & So Tends to Traditional Marriage (12/7/2017)
• Orthodoxy Is Inevitable (11/21/2017)
• Marriage as an Ontological Real (11/14/2017)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: The Ontological Priority of Wholes to Parts (11/14/2017)
• The Razor Ockham *Should* Have Proposed (11/9/2017)
• The Narcissism Test: Reality. Who Needs It? (11/5/2017)
• Materialist Reduction *Just Is* Elimination (11/1/2017)
• Apologetical Weapons: The Included Middle (10/25/2017)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Eternity (10/25/2017)
• Aesthetic Knowledge (10/22/2017)
• Creatio ex Nihilo (10/5/2017)
• The Truth That Founds the Error of Pantheism (9/27/2017)
• I Get a Kick out of Fugue, Part 2 (9/21/2017)
• I Get a Kick out of Fugue, Part 1 (9/20/2017)
• Profane Hierarchies are Bound to Work Evil (9/19/2017)
• Increase of Subsidiarity Tends to Increase of Liberty (9/14/2017)
• Upstate Consolation University Addresses Statue Crisis (8/29/2017)
• Thomas Sowell in “Intellectuals and Race” (8/20/2017)
• First-Day Lecture to the Lit Crit Students (8/20/2017)
• Apparitions of the Gods (8/8/2017)
• Truth versus the West (7/11/2017)
• The Intersection of Metahistory & Sainthood (6/30/2017)
• Hegel’s Christian Aesthetics (6/21/2017)
• The Summary of the Law is the Sine Qua Non of Society Per Se (6/14/2017)
• Virtue, Vice, and the Signals Thereof (6/11/2017)
• Orthosphere Exclusive: “I Hacked America’s Election!” (5/30/2017)
• Divorce: Symptom of a Profound Psychopathological Reproductive Disorder (5/25/2017)
• Reversion to Tit for Tat (5/24/2017)
• Supragenous Authority & the Subsidiaritan Feudal Stack of Sovereignties (5/23/2017)
• Authority Must Flow Down From On High (5/22/2017)
• Will California Follow Atlantis? (5/20/2017)
• More on GNON (5/18/2017)
• Our Dreams of the Implicate Order (5/11/2017)
• Free Markets Are Costly; Who Should Pay for Them? (5/2/2017)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Nunc (4/30/2017)
• Truth versus the Crowd in the Work of René Girard (4/29/2017)
• Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony (4/16/2017)
• The “Ula Lu La Lu” & Consciousness: Meditations on an Imagist Poem by William Carlos Williams (4/15/2017)
• Flaubert’s Herodias: A Study of Revelation & Consciousness (4/15/2017)
• Advaita Christianity (4/4/2017)
• Conflation of Ends Ruins Everything (3/15/2017)
• You Can’t Heal Yourself (3/13/2017)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Person versus Entity (2/15/2017)
• It’s Logoi All the Way Up (2/14/2017)
• Revealed Religion Compensates for Our Epistemological Limitations (2/13/2017)
• Fixing American Health Care Funding (2/12/2017)