“In all the long wars with the Dark Tower, treason has ever been our greatest foe.” In the modern world, we have plenty of dark forces to point to. Child murderers to the left of me; warmongers to the right;
Some define liberalism as being founded on a belief in a ‘universal man’, some common essential which, unless obscured by its refusal, is present in all persons. On this ground, liberalism asserts, no actual difference is discernable between Englishmen, Pakistanis,
The Imperfections of the Competition As intimated in the first entry to this triple-feature, mankind has many, many metaphors to describe civilization. Coming up with one is a common part of promulgating a theory of history. Today, we’ll consider four
How do you conceive of a civilization or a society? When you discuss history, does a society rise and fall? Is it young or old, solar or lunar, a part of a season-cycle? How do you picture a society’s lifespan?
The problem of evil is old and tired and jagged, the sort of thing philosophers regularly cut themselves on quite badly, then go on bleeding all over history. Then along comes an ordinary Christian and deals with it in practice,
I watched a ten second clip in which a man was killed. Charlie Kirk opened his mouth to speak; the side of his neck exploded outwards; he fell to the ground. Some time later, he died, despite all efforts to
This is a semi-review of Stephen Wolfe’s controversial book The Case for Christian Nationalism, a review I wrote some time ago for a different venue, shortly after finishing the book. Having shifted the focus of this blog to include political
Originally Published Here on Truthwire Ancient Rome worshiped the Imperator, and ancient Egypt worshiped the Pharaoh. Modern North Korea worships Kim Jong Un. The rationale has little complexity to it. These rulers were or are men of immense power, relative
It is the long-fostered ambition of mankind to find the ultimate principle by which he may bring the right order to the world, the principle by which he may order reality to his own benefit. This is the essence of
I read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism a few months ago, and the whole time I read the book, one problem with Goldberg’s position plagued me: his insistence on classical liberalism (the English version, I think, in fairness to him) as