3,729 words Portrait of Schelling by Karl Joseph Stieler. 1885. Part 5 of 15 (Part 1 begins here.) Unintelligibility is the Core of What is Real It is tempting to think of Schelling’s ground as a “material principle” along the lines of Aristotle’s hulē or Plato’s hupodochē – or, for that matter, the “indefinite dyad” […]
3,292 words Michel Houellebecq Annihilation Translation by Shaun Whiteside London: Picador, 2024 In terms of its emotional impact, Annihilation is Michel Houellebecq’s finest novel. In his previous works, Houellebecq created and perfected a new genre of sorts: novels whose settings are worlds in decline, whose protagonists are utterly petty and impotent in the face of […]
544 words This is a short historical essay from 1929’s Oklahoma: A History of the State and Its People, Volume 2, (Appendix L-2, p921) THE TULSA RACE RIOT It is difficult to account for such sudden outbreaks as the Tulsa race riot. Muskogee narrowly escaped a similar outbreak a few years before, when a white […]
1,161 words It was once said of Jim Bridger, that pioneering explorer of the Old West, that he liked places better than he liked people. This Jim can relate. I love to travel far more than I like to socialize. But places, just like people, are not all equal. Most are bland and forgettable. Some […]
166 words Ike is my shephard. I shall live in want. He leadeth me beside still factories of the world. He restoreth my doubt in the Republican party. He putteth bayonets in the backs of young schcol girls. He maketh them go to school with negroes against their wishes. Yes, though I walk the breadlines […]
166 words Ike is my shepherd. I shall live in want. He leadeth me beside still factories of the world. He restoreth my doubt in the Republican party. He putteth bayonets in the backs of young school girls. He maketh them go to school with negroes against their wishes. Yes, though I walk the breadlines […]
1,183 words A recent viewing of the 2012 movie Maniac remake made me question the unsettling parallels between a man hunting for love and one hunting with murderous intent. The film is very good if you like a giallo slasher in the style of Dario Argento. Producer of both versions, William Lustig, even worked on […]
5,738 words CHAPTER 9 AUTOGNOSIS Know thyself 2.0 The beginning of philosophy is to know the condition of your own mind. Epictetus “Know thyself” was famously inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and seen by Socrates’ friend Caepheron on a visit there to enquire as to whether Socrates was the wisest of […]
2,103 words Lawrence Dennis & Maximilian St. George A Trial on Trial: The Great Sedition Trial of 1944 First published in 1945 by the National Civil Rights Committee Torrence California: Institute for Historical Review, 1984 In 1944, when the Allies were on the cusp of winning the Second World War, the Roosevelt administration’s Justice Department […]
1,261 words Read Part 1 here The movement frequently criticizes older people for being vulnerable to Zionism, and rightfully diagnoses decades of Jewish dominance of the media, and especially TV, as the biggest cause. Once one steps back it seems odd, even from a Christian perspective, to place Israel on a pedestal as a defender […]
Frank Herbert. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons 438 words Frank Herbert was born on this day in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. Herbert is best-known as the creator of Dune, which is the most widely-read and influential science fiction novel of all time. Herbert, moreover, is an artist of the Right. As I wrote in my […]
3,094 words Reduced, then, to teaching and preaching, the Negroes will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties. Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933) Hey […]
3,094 words Reduced, then, to teaching and preaching, the Negroes will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties. Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933) Hey […]
1,761 words Washed-out section of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Image source: National Park Service Last week I spoke of my morose dread that when Hurricane Helene passed through the Atlanta suburbs, my house would be uprooted and start spinning in the air Wizard of Oz-style, but […]
6,206 words Francis Ford Coppola Megalopolis: A Fable Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne Produced, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola “This is typical of new directors, too many good ideas. Or, in this case, no ideas.” –Mystery Science Theater.[1] “It was like watching […]
The limited hardcover edition of Imperium is now shipping. Order your copy here. 397 words 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser Update Last week I asked you to check back to see if our fundraiser total passed $150,000, the midway point to our goal of $300,000. Thanks to our generous supporters, we are now at $159,974.74. This […]
3,805 words Part 4 of 15 The Internal Differentiation of God Schelling now throws us another curve, and it is a major one. All this time we have been speaking of the “immanence” of all things within God. But now Schelling tells us that “the concept of immanence is to be set aside completely insofar […]
3,805 words Part 4 of 15 The Internal Differentiation of God Schelling now throws us another curve, and it is a major one. All this time we have been speaking of the “immanence” of all things within God. But now Schelling tells us that “the concept of immanence is to be set aside completely insofar […]
2,329 words Edgy satires often achieve greatness proportional to the power of the thing they satirize. For example, a novel satirizing Communist Russia in the 1920s, such as Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog, would have lost much of its edge had it been written in, say, 1987, during the final years of Communism. But […]
934 words At the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, both the “Dissident Right” and mainstream conservatives in America quickly became lockstep in praising Putin and criticizing Ukraine. Nationalists in Europe were not so easily taken in. Part of this was undoubtedly due to geographical proximity. The Russian bear looks more cute and cuddly the […]
872 words There are outliers. There are extraordinary people who are physical freaks of nature imbued with innate attributes like Larry Bird, Shawn Bradley, Nolan Ryan, Wayne Gretzky, Connor McDavid, or Bill Buckner (who may or may not have opened a chain of laundromats). These are athletes that come around every generation or so. There […]
1,822 words I try to avoid the subject of the upcoming election because honestly, I see validity in both the pro- and anti- Trump arguments. I’m not sure there would be much difference between Trump and Kamala in how they govern. Yes, Kamala is promising to grant amnesty to millions of people. That doesn’t mean […]
1,147 words Smoke from chemical plant fire in Conyers, GA on Sunday, September 29. Image source X I’ve lived in the Atlanta area for seventeen and a half years. That’s at least seventeen years too many. The first few weeks were OK, though. I’ve wanted and tried to leave for years. Now that my departure […]
3,186 words When George Orwell arrived in Aragon to fight against Franco in 1937, it wasn’t the poor state of the weaponry that worried him, and it wasn’t the enemy. As chronicled in Homage to Catalonia, he was more alarmed at the number of factional squabbles there were on his side. In-fighting in the face […]
2,931 words Brigitte Nielsen photographed with Nancy and Ronald Reagan and Sylvester Stallone. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Europe and the West have been crippled by an intellectual and ideological paralysis, whereby any call to action or indeed any empirical observation of repeatable, observable trends are met with unending obfuscation. Such obfuscation takes many forms, […]
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