Classic Archives - The Pillarist

March 28, 2025 Merri

Artificial Society II

With AI becoming increasingly prevalent in service industries, tech heads consider art and creativity as one of its next frontiers. Not good!

January 21, 2025 Merri

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

In this conclusion, we look at Tolkien’s thoughts on art and the place his work occupies in the social landscape, and in particular, the importance of cultivating appropriate interpretive modes.

Classic Commentary

December 16, 2023 Merri

Artificial Society

The AI revolution shows us not just how sophisticated machine learning has gotten, but also how robotic social interaction has become.

Classic Commentary

August 7, 2021 Merri

The Inverted Conspiracy Theory

When it comes to COVID, the words “conspiracy theory” get thrown around as rhetorical hand grenades. But what’s the conspiracy theory?

Classic Commentary

August 1, 2021 Merri

The Cringening of the Conservative Mind

In which we investigate the history of American conservatism, the relevancy of the Cold War, the MAGA movement, and why it’s so cringe today.

Classic Commentary

October 25, 2020 Merri

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?

Classic Commentary Old Stuff

July 15, 2020 Merri

The Politics of Humiliation

If we have learned anything in the last four months, it’s that nearly every element of American society is run, at its highest levels, by people who hate you. This isn’t exactly news to readers of this blog, as I’ve been harping on this point for quite a long time. The difference is, as I mentioned in my last post on the subject, the masks are off and they aren’t even bothering to hide their disdain.