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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Commentary
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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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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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.”
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The Pillarist
The pillarist, or stylite, as he would usually be termed, is a man who has positioned himself between heaven and
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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.
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Coming Apart
About a month ago, the Atlantic dropped a bomb entitled Beyond Originalism, which somewhat briefly outlined an integralist approach to
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Modernity’s Historical Illiteracy — Ecclesia et Synagoga
We all watched the flames consume the historic spire of Notre-Dame on Monday, burning it down to its skeleton before
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Student Loan Crisis or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Debt Slavery
The cumulative total of American student loans hit $1.5 trillion earlier this year, spread out across a little over forty-four
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