Essays

• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: The Maximality Test (5/13/2022)
• The Lamb Risen from the Foundation of the World (4/17/2022)
• A Clarification by Way of Elaboration of Anselm’s Ontological Argument (2/28/2022)
• Order ↔ Freedom (2/25/2022)
• Gödelian Incompleteness → Creaturely Freedom (2/20/2022)
• The Basic Liberal Conceit (2/16/2022)
• God is Not Like Other Creators Such as We (2/8/2022)
• Creatio ex Nihilo, Atheism, or Manicheism: Choose But One (1/31/2022)
• So Much for the Turing Test … and for Consequentialism (12/31/2021)
• On the Turing Test (12/8/2021)
• Can Atheism Be Carried Into Practice? (11/19/2021)
• Recourse to Brute Fact is Rejection of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (11/12/2021)
• The Problem of Evil for Atheists (11/8/2021)
• The Kalam Ontological Argument (10/29/2021)
• Beauty is Salutary, Ugliness Noxious (10/23/2021)
• Superstition & Subscendence: An Essay in Honor of Tom Bertonneau (10/21/2021)
• On the Difficulty of the Cosmos (9/26/2021)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: The Stack of Worlds & the Literal Fall; &c. (9/12/2021)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Idolatry (9/9/2021)
• Christian Focus on Sempiternity → Long Term Approach to Mundane Affairs (9/3/2021)
• Traditionalism is the Reductio of Modernity (8/23/2021)
• An Exchange with My Master Lawrence Auster About the Fall & Our Predicament (8/19/2021)
• Girard on Anthropogenesis (8/19/2021)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: The Play: Its Wright, Players, & Characters (8/16/2021)
• Eliade on the Sacred and the Profane (7/31/2021)
• The Quaintness of the Regia Aeronautica in World War II (7/20/2021)
• Fighting against Sleep: Colin Wilson’s Necessary Doubt as Phenomenological Thriller (7/19/2021)
• Two Poems – George Sterling & Clark Ashton Smith (7/11/2021)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Almost All Innovations Are Lethal (7/1/2021)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – The “London” and “Pastoral” Symphonies and “Sinfonia Antartica” (6/27/2021)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: The Stack of Worlds (6/27/2021)
• Kristor & Ilíon: Gödel, Creation, Evil, the Satan, &c. (6/16/2021)
• On Some Happy Corollaries of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems (6/9/2021)
• Two Recent Anti-Modern Critiques – Thaddeus Kozinski & Daniel Schwindt (6/5/2021)
• A Bit More on Amtor – Is Carson of Venus a Paracletic Hero? (5/22/2021)
• The Catastrophe — Part II (5/16/2021)
• The Catastrophe — Part I (5/16/2021)
• Burroughs’ Amtor – A Satire of Ideologies (5/6/2021)
• DIE: The Contradictions of Anti-Racism (4/28/2021)
• Pin-Up Art & the Metaphysics of Sex (4/21/2021)
• Despite Everything, It is Easter (4/4/2021)
• The Long Weekend (4/4/2021)
• The Atonement: A Simple Explanation for Children (4/4/2021)
• Self-Education vs. Higher Education (4/2/2021)
• On the Solemnity of the Annunciation of Our Lord: On the Virgin Birth (3/26/2021)
• Poe’s Psychic-Atomist Critique of Wayward Modernity – Part II (3/22/2021)
• Poe’s Psychic-Atomist Critique of Wayward Modernity – Part I (3/22/2021)
• Meaning or Nothing (3/21/2021)
• On Our Inheritance of Original Sin (3/16/2021)
• The Body of the Mind & the Mind of the Body (3/2/2021)
• Leaving the Blight of Higher Education: Part II – Farewell, Faculty (2/21/2021)
• Leaving the Blight of Higher Education: Part I – Farewell, Students (2/21/2021)
• Clark Ashton Smith’s Representation of Evil (2/17/2021)
• Church Choristers Must Be, & Must Be Male (2/7/2021)
• Robert E. Howard’s Conan: A Paracletic Hero? (1/31/2021)
• Training in the Virtues – All of Them – With a Frisbee (1/27/2021)
• Rémi Brague on the Hubris of Modernity (1/5/2021)
• Calling All Evangels: Battle Stations! (12/24/2020)
• Article of Possible Interest (12/18/2020)
• Proclus, Einstein, & the Logos (12/16/2020)
• The Incipience of Irresistible Truth (12/15/2020)
• The Concerted Salients of Our Demoralization (12/5/2020)
• Notes for an Anthropoetics of the Flying Saucers (11/22/2020)
• Never Panic (11/22/2020)
• On Worship (11/8/2020)
• Lectures d’Automne 2020 (Sélections d’Octobre) (11/5/2020)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Prayer Mediates All Sorts of Influence (11/5/2020)
• The Boomer Epidemic (11/2/2020)
• Clark Ashton Smith’s “City of the Singing Flame” & Synchronicity (10/30/2020)
• Earth Anew: Eco Music from Mahler to Rasmussen – Part II (10/26/2020)
• Earth Anew: Eco-Music from Mahler to Rasmussen – Part I (10/26/2020)
• Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Ideas Cannot Conceive Themselves (10/21/2020)
• The Argument from Perfect Generality (10/20/2020)
• Materialism is True (10/19/2020)
• Ibsen’s Unknown Masterpiece, Part II (10/9/2020)
• Ibsen’s Unknown Masterpiece, Part I (10/6/2020)
• Wherefore Patriarchy? (9/16/2020)
• The Cinema of Karel Zeman (9/13/2020)
• Living Out The Bacchae (America Burns) (8/31/2020)
• Lectures d’été (Sélections d’Août) (8/14/2020)
• The Baroque in Science Fiction – Part II (8/6/2020)
• The Baroque in Science Fiction – Part I (8/6/2020)
• Lectures d’été (Sélections de Juillet) (7/1/2020)
• Spengler on Militant Religiosity (6/26/2020)
• Spengler on Democracy & Equality (6/14/2020)
• Eric Voegelin on Gnostic Modernity (6/13/2020)
• Visions of the Wasteland – Part II (5/31/2020)
• Visions of the Wasteland – Part I (5/31/2020)
• 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)