A guilty man is immensely vulnerable, even impotent. The man who feels guilt has no stable ground to stand on when he is challenged; he is weak, crumpled up in the corner, like a tripod with one bum leg. Even
Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want should be on the shelf of every political figure and public-sphere thinker in America. (Just, please, read it first, before putting it on the shelf.) Barris and Lisec provide
Bureaucracy does not work nearly as well. Islander VI’s article “Brotherhoods” by Stephen Carson is well worth the read, short as it may be compared to some of its companions. In it, Carson lays out the pitch for ‘mutual aid
The PCA’s interim report sort-of-on Christian Nationalism places a strong emphasis on the ‘spirituality’ of the church. The church, it avers, ought not to make “pronouncements on specific questions of political arrangement or policy that go beyond the clear teaching
Build on rock or on sand. Henry Martin’s article in Islander VI, “Influence Is Not Power,” is a 10/10, go read right now sort of article. I have, frankly, no disagreement with what is said (unless I’ve missed something), and
If you want racism, suppress it. The number of issues which the mainstream in modern politics refuses to acknowledge, except to ridicule. Politicians, leaders, all the apparatus of the conventional world, refuses to address these problems; they make them worse
Battacharya’s article (see Part One) pushes a policy of governmental interference, which is a bad direction, though I applaud his acumen in addressing the public. His view of how science can be fostered, however, is the real problem. Without recognizing
Humor is all sorts of stuff, all sorts of drama. Much of humor has not much of a point besides the joke itself. Anecdotes can be pointed, but just as often as not they’re pointless, just scenarios running of stereotypes
We’ve a bigger foe in the West. Worry about Islam’s rise in the West is a bit of a chorus in certain parts of the conservative right. I do not discount the validity of these worries, in themselves. Islam’s star
We must do it. One common talking point in geopolitics punditry is the impossibility of negotiating with somebody who will not keep his word. Without trust, they say, actual agreements are just not possible; all they represent are concessions whose