Merri, Author at The Pillarist

How should the leviathan be tamed? Sunstein and Vermeule argue that, by realistic standards, it already is. It just has to stay that way.

Commentary

October 16, 2020 Merri

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.

Books Reviews

October 9, 2020 Merri

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.

Commentary

October 3, 2020 Merri

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?

Books Reviews

September 25, 2020 Merri

REVIEW: No Colours or Crest – Peter Kemp (1958; Mystery Grove Publishing, 2020)

From the frozen barracks in northern England and the stony shores of France, to the treacherous mountains of Albania and the snowy tracts of Poland: No Colours or Crest details Kemp’s assignments as part-Commando, part-insurgent across the fields of some of World War II’s least-talked about regions.

Commentary

September 19, 2020 Merri

R.B. Ginsberg and the Sexual Revolution’s Monster

We’ve known for a while now that immigration and the sexual revolution stand at the forefront of contemporary leftist priorities. Taken at their most charitable word, they think America is such a great country that everyone should be allowed to come here, and they believe that sex is the highest of all goods and should not be restricted by any social preconceptions. In practice, no matter how genuine in their beliefs anyone might accuse them of being, these translate into “your country shouldn’t belong to you,” and “any attempt to safeguard properly ordered sexual morality must be condemned.”