Two Americas
The decline of America marked the rise of an occupational regime, and conservatism has done nothing to stop it. But is it so much an occupation from the top we’re fighting, or a foreign country altogether?
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Month: October 2020
REVIEW: Law & Leviathan – Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule (Belknap Press, 2020)
How should the leviathan be tamed? Sunstein and Vermeule argue that, by realistic standards, it already is. It just has to stay that way.
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A Brief Philosophy of Pain
Why do we feel pain? Why do we suffer? These questions form the heart of so many pagan and modern philosophies because they are the hardest to answer. The world would make so much more sense, it seems, if pain simply didn’t exist.
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REVIEW: Alms for Oblivion – Peter Kemp (1961; Mystery Grove, 2020)
Across these books is the arc of an English law student who, with a certain ideological vigor, abandons his comfortable life in the Isles to throw himself into the dangers, horrors, adventures, and camaraderie of war. But it is a story that has two distinct levels to it: Kemp’s personal trials comprise the obvious tale, but he is also a person active in the machinations of history.
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The Incoherence of a ‘Mythological’ Genesis
Should Genesis be understood purely as an abstract spiritual text? Should we listen to those who claim it to be so?
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