Ideological Firewalls Work Quite Well…Until They Don’t
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Our prime task is the unglamorous—and for many in this culture that worships action for action’s sake—unsatisfying task of circling back to things like love,... Read more.
We’ve Let Them Get Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives
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What has changed is that there has been a concerted psychological campaign to effectively insert abstract and often empirically questionable paradigms of sickness... Read more.
Clerical Abuse Redefined
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When we hear the term “clerical abuse,” I think most of us think of perverse sexual behavior. But it seems worth asking if the parameters of the term might need... Read more.
Pilgrimages to Nowhere?
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What I did not understand was just how disrespectful of transcendental thinking consumer culture is, and how it can turn the search for human and esthetic discoveries... Read more.
The Insularity of the Academic Elite
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The humanist’s fundamental job is, or at least should be, one of synthesis, of taking a wide-angle approach to the many things he observes in culture and seeking... Read more.
In Praise of Elegance
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Elegance matters, not only because it makes the world more aesthetically pleasing, but because it reminds us in these times when obscenely powerful elites are trying... Read more.
Generational Dialogue in the Age of Machines
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The acting of becoming a mindful and hopefully ethical being has, for millennia, centered on a very simple dialogical process: one in which the child learns to view... Read more.
Academics Reveal That Water Is Transparent
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When reading In Covid's Wake, it becomes immediately clear that its authors, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, have very little curiosity, never mind understanding,... Read more.
Chorus of the Poodles
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Like Augusto Pérez, the European “leaders” were angry to discover that they were essentially fictitious figures who act daily at the mercy of their puppet masters... Read more.
Napoleon: Then and Now
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Like Napoleon’s troops, the legions of cognitive warriors from the myriad government-financed, non-governmental organizations are sure they have arrived at the... Read more.
The Demoralizing Downward Spiral of Algorithmic Culture
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Caught in the “measure-grab-and-control” tyranny of the algorithmic mind, they cannot imagine how those they see as lesser than them, might, if left to their... Read more.
To Survive Family Dinners
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Everyone knows that the multi-generational family table has, for centuries, been the prime site of socialization for society’s young. It is where they have learned... Read more.