Dearest Readers, My editors at Chelsea Green Publishing have graciously offered readers of this Substack an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age — the Introduction. Facing the Beast is about the last three years, and about my personal journey — a […]
Genocidal Ancestral Memory
Did Leaders with “Genocidal Memory” in their Ancestors’ Past, Help to Save Us? I promised God, as you recall, after I got a second chance to be alive, that I would write the things I most feared to write. This essay is in that category. We are in […]
“Happy Indictment Day!”
In a Deep Blue State, Recoiling from the Celebrations I am in a deep blue small town in a deep blue state, here on the West Coast. The natives are jubilant today. “Happy Indictment Day!” shouted the neighbor of my host, as my host and I sat out on a […]
Soup: Food as Metaphor, How We Keep One Another Alive
I was supine on the couch, as I have been for a couple of weeks now, recovering from my very near brush with the Void. I’ve given myself, with my doctor’s blessing, permission to be in a state of “rest” — that retro condition — without guilt, for a while […]
Energies, Cont. What Good and Evil Flow Around Us?
I promised God, as you recall, in the hospital where I lay nearly dying, that, if I was allowed to live, I would write the things which I most feared to write. So here we are: starting. I sought my entire career to secure a reputation as a serious, academically-trained […]
The Geneva Bible Genesis 36-40: Joseph and His Dreams; A Crime Turns Into A Blessing
Dr. Naomi Wolf reads and discusses the Geneva Bible Genesis 36-40: Joseph and His Dreams; A Crime Turns Into A Blessing.
Weird Things About King Charles’ Coronation
As Symbols are Twisted, Is Britain Being De-Consecrated? As I watched King Charles III’s coronation, I had a creeping sense — as perhaps many did — of what Dr Sigmund Freud called, in a paper by that name, “Das Unheimliche” — or the “uncanny”. [https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Uncanny.pdf ] That is the […]
The Crime of “Talking to Tucker Carlson”
A Note of Support, from a Surprising Detente The whole world is commenting on and speculating about the abrupt departure of former Fox commentator Tucker Carlson from that network. Addressing the current moment is not my intent. I have no idea what the “inside story” is on the events related […]
Dear Conservatives, I Apologize
My “Team” was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who “put America first” everywhere. It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation with my own gullibility under the rug — to “move on” […]
A Fall, and a Puppy in Jeopardy, Show How we Save One Another: Neighbors as Lifeblood
Last Thursday afternoon, in the quiet neighborhood in an area of Salem, MA, where my husband has a little place in which we hang out when we spend time with my wonderful stepson, I foolishly decided to go for a run with our puppy. Loki is ten months old, and […]