Culture
“Can You Go Home Again? Yale’s 40th College Reunion”
Or: Why Things Are the Way They Are Can one go home again? What is privilege? What is inclusion? What is “meaning”? How do all these work to reward and punish and thus to police our societies and cultures, our knowledge base itself, our moral norms — in the subtlest, …
“Dante’s 9 Circles of Hell”
A guide to the very bottom… Few works of Western literature can compete with Dante’s Divine Comedy. It’s a fascinatingly engaging read, despite being written over 700 years ago and containing many complex references to history and myth. For those who want to master the cultural heritage of the West, it’s …
“On Lying”
Possible short term advantage often subsequently eclipsed by long term disaster. I woke up this morning to the news that—after four years of printing lies—the New York Times has finally published an Opinion piece acknowledges the evidence that SARS-CoV-2 did not originate in nature, but in a lab. It seems the editors …
“5 Materials That Shaped the World And The Legacy They Left Behind”
Originally published on Culture Critic Iraq’s answer to the pyramids: the Great Ziggurat of Ur (before and after restoration) From the ruined walls of the earliest Mesopotamian cities to the skyscrapers of the 20th century, the story of civilization can be told through five main building materials. Without brick, …
“WORLD PREMIERE: The Illusion of Consensus SEASON TWO”
The day has come. Welcome to season 2 of The Illusion of Consensus podcast. Please consider supporting our new media project by becoming a paid member now. Hi everyone, We’re very excited to launch season 2 of our podcast with none other than the inimitable Russell Brand as our first …
“Why Do We Keep Going back to Ancient Greece?”
A culture that never dies… Ancient Greece never dies. Every few hundred years, Western culture remembers its roots, and artists and architects find themselves harkening back to the civilization that started it all. In many ways, there’s a continuous thread running back in time from the United States Capitol Building …
“Blue State Blues: Update from Wokeville, OR”
I am visiting a loved one in the bluest of blue states, Oregon. I’m in a small town that is adorable beyond measure; adorable in a way that differs from the East Coast cuteness of Millerton, New York, or Salem, MA. The Central Valley small town in which I find …
“What Was the Worst Year in History? And Why Beauty Still Matters During Disaster”
Originally published on Culture Critic. What was the worst year in human history? To answer that, we first have to ask how you even define what constitutes the “worst.” Is it the loss of life, or the scale of suffering? Or is it a different kind of damage altogether? The …
“Free Speech in American Universities”
picture above – courtesy Robin Monnoti’s X feed Free speech only comes into its own when you freely consent to hear what you hate to hear. When everyone is singing from the same songbook, it sure may sound mighty sweet – but it is not free speech. It then becomes a …
“Spiritual Warfare and The Great Reset”
From where is the now-well-established ‘depopulation agenda’ really coming? What are the globalists planning next? And, most importantly, how can we protect ourselves from metaphysical evil? Kate Hildreth, the ‘Rogue Millennial’, interviewed Louis Melgoza, a Catholic Demonologist, film producer, and speaker, who has studied spiritual warfare for over a decade. …
“Is This What Hell Looks Like?”
Originally published on Culture Critic The gap between medieval and modern art might seem unbridgeable. But there is one painting that connects the two — and it’s as strange as you might expect. Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is more than a visual masterpiece. It holds the keys to some big questions: …
“The Varieties of Political Experience: The Health Freedom Activist Community Brings the Hammer Down”
Originally published on Substack We do not often characterize politics as spiritual activity. Many if not most people associate it with problematic power struggles and necessary evils — the supposed opposite of spirituality. And yet, if we define spiritual activity as the effect of “immaterial” ideas and morals on the …
“Falsehood Flies, Truth Limps After It”
Note to a demoralized reader In 1710, Jonathan Swift noted in The Examiner: Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no …
The Real Threat to Your Way of Life
Why famine and food shortages grow more likely each day — in America! With a constant stream of Hollywood end-of-the-world calamity blockbuster movies, Americans are generally distracted from the real-life disaster scenario that threatens us. Growing dependency on processed foods, often shipped long distances via crammed distribution systems, has created a …
The Dying Game: The Business of Depopulation
As the excess body count piles up, new industries have emerged to sanitise the messy job of culling the native Irish population. Elizabeth Oakes: That’s something I would definitely advocate is start talking about what you would like for your end-of-life options? Tommy Tiernan: Like when? Like I’m 50. Elizabeth Oakes: I’d be …
“Broken in What Way?” My Latest Letter from New York
I am in New York again, and I am sending you this postcard from a city I love and have loved; from a broken city. Broken; yet struggling to reimagine itself, as it has so many times before. Are we better? Are we lost? Are we changed, changed utterly? Here …
“The Answer to Population Control is Hidden in Plain Sight”
Big Pharma. Abortion. Child Transition. Experimental Vaccines. Gender Ideology. Smart Cities. Pandemic Lockdowns. Assisted Suicide. Pornography. Media Censorship. Climate Change. Harm Reduction. Secularism. You may recognize these as features of far-left ideology, also known as leftism, progressivism, wokeism, or neo-Marxism. But they are also components of something far …
“Is Obesity a New Phenomenon?”
Fat People During Prehistoric, Medieval and Current Times Overweight people existed even during prehistoric times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels The above 41,000-year-old figurine Venus of Hohle Fels, made from mammoth ivory, is the oldest undisputed depiction of a human being. The woman portrayed by that prehistoric artifact lived in a cave near Schelklingen, Germany. Some experts …
Lessons From the Religious Wars
Only an intact Constitution can protect us from tribal and ideological warfare. François Dubois (Public Domain) A few days ago, I saw a report that James “J.R.” Reeves—Chief Information Officer and IT Director for U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)—has long been in the habit of referring to white people on his …
Faithless Town Unleashes New Anti-Woke Single “Woke Town”
Faithless Town Unleashes New Anti-Woke Single “Woke Town” Americana rock sensation Faithless Town is making waves once again with the release of their latest single, “Woke Town.” The track serves as a daring commentary on woke culture and the contemporary “progressive” left. Known for their fearless approach to tackling societal …