I have alluded to the ancient Chinese thinker, Sun Tzu’s treatise on The Art of War before, but have not illustrated at some length how his most famous saying (no. 18 of the section, Laying Plans, in the treatise) – …
Herd or Hero, Body or ‘Soul’
Along the high street where I live, there is an advertisement on the side of one of the bus shelters. It features a woman, heavy-set and pictured from behind. The text reads Get Your and then On Board, placed so …
Toward an Archaeology of Anger
Last week, Brownstone Journal published an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment, titled: Our Last Innocent Moment: Angry Forever?
In this piece Ponesse treats, in a refreshingly well-rounded and down-to-earth way, the complex subject of anger. Few …
The Post-Ideological Age
Conventional wisdom has it that the US and much of the Western world has polarized into right and left. These tribes are hard-core and share mutual loathing. That model of understanding pervades all popular media and consumes the culture, such …
The Man Who Brought Socrates to the Military
Last week when I read of Brigadier General (ret) Malham Wakin’s death, his name sounded familiar. As a newly arrived cadet at the Air Force Academy in 1968, the head of the Department of Philosophy, a colonel in his mid-30s, …
Linear Time and the Art of Staying Human
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Thomas Harrington’s book, Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class.
Many, if not most, who question the approach that has been taken to controlling Covid are mystified, when they are not …
Throne and Altar: Delusional Messianic Expectations
Poorly formed expectations are premeditated resentments.
This piece of wisdom occurred to me recently while reflecting on the beginning of the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. Our Lord performs the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish as …
Why the Left hates MAGA Communism
I wanted to love MAGA Communism. When the movement emerged on X in 2022, it ruffled all the right feathers. It sought to meet working-class people where they were, channelling their frustrations while simultaneously dismantling the Left-wing establishment.
Predictably, the …
We Reap the Harvest of Lies
Public life has become disorienting. Most people, by and large, previously expected to hear the truth, or some semblance of it, in daily life. We would generally expect this from each other, but also from public media and authorities such …
We Reap the Harvest of Lies
Public life has become disorienting. Most people, by and large, previously expected to hear the truth, or some semblance of it, in daily life. We would generally expect this from each other, but also from public media and authorities such …
History, Technology, and a Balanced Attitude
The current generation stands before a gigantic irony of history – at least if human history is considered, as it has been since the 19th century, as a history of development. It was not only the Romantic Movement’s interest in …
The grizzly truth about the West
The past month of American politics have been utter chaos. Former president Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by a matter of millimetres. Joe Biden went to Las Vegas, reportedly got Covid, and disappeared completely from public view. A day …
Immutable Rules Made Mutable in the New Age
Even just a few years ago, there was a certain certainty about the world, about society.
Now there is only probability and it’s as if civilization has been forced to shift from a Newtonian worldview to a quantum consideration.
That …
Why Denial Persists
We recently returned from a conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where we spent several days after the event’s conclusion exploring this beautiful city and its environs. While there, walking Lisbon’s famed ‘seven hills,’ mostly surrounded by throngs of other visitors – …
Death Gods and the Attack on President Trump
Have the powers of gods of death been unleashed in our relatively peaceable nation?
I’m in a hip, storied, deep-blue Catskills town; I was having a restful little writer’s retreat on my own, in a miniature cottage overlooking a small …