Essays

• Modern Life as Cargo Cult (6/4/2023)
• Jubilee Incoming, Ready or Not; Why Not Make Ready? (4/29/2023)
• The Basic Problem With Libertarianism (4/23/2023)
• Christ Is Risen, & We With Him, & All Good Things We Rightly Love (4/9/2023)
• The Necessary Devastation of Good Friday (4/7/2023)
• What Will Happen When There Is Only One Bank? (3/26/2023)
• The Vipers Are Now in Charge (3/21/2023)
• Goodness, Truth & Beauty are Classist, Racist & Sexist (3/18/2023)
• FFS Are You Kidding Me is the Gedanken Policy Test Writ Small (3/12/2023)
• How to Increase Priestly Vocations (3/11/2023)
• Iterated Gedanken Policy Tests on Social Power of Virtue End at Monarchy (3/5/2023)
• All Slopes Are Slippery (2/25/2023)
• On the Slippery Slope of Classical Liberalism (2/24/2023)
• And There Shall Be No More Death (2/17/2023)
• The Basic Problem of All Gnosticism (2/12/2023)
• Dying, Jesus Suffered & Bore the Pain of All Sins; So, He Healed Them, All (2/3/2023)
• Happy New Year: On to Ochlocracy! (1/1/2023)
• On the Immaculate Conception (12/9/2022)
• The Principle of Sufficient Reason & Creaturely Free Agency (12/1/2022)
• Feminism versus the Gedanken Policy Test (12/1/2022)
• All Causes Are Reasons (11/14/2022)
• Today is Weimar; Today is the Reign of Elagabalus; This is Belshazzar’s Feast (10/31/2022)
• The Phenomenology of Error → ¬ ¬ Free Agency (10/28/2022)
• What You Can Do Right Now (10/1/2022)
• Pray the Jesus Prayer, & Be Done With All the Rest (9/30/2022)
• On the Peculiar Difficulty of the Ascension (8/23/2022)
• Romantic Christianity versus Christianity Proper (7/30/2022)
• On Finding the True Way to Life (7/24/2022)
• On the Reason & Purpose & Intent of the Orthosphere (7/23/2022)
• Theodicy in a Sentence (7/9/2022)
• Moloch Will Want His Regular Meals: Cave! (6/25/2022)
• Choose Martyrdom; What Could Be Better, Withal? (6/13/2022)
• The Maximality Test Crushes the Great Heresies (6/5/2022)
• 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)