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Sex Matters
The modern instinct is to treat sex as a private matter that is of no real consequence to the body politic, and thus no legitimate concern of the sovereign, or of the public. Against this conservatives...
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Post-Literacy and the Refusal to Read
A colleague who teaches in the humanities at the state college where I work also teaches at a nearby private college. In the colleague’s description, the private college is perpetually in the grip of...
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Life & the Limit
I heard a trenchant aphorism the other day,[1] derived from what Amazon has learned about the best way to package books: Structure, not padding. My first job was as a shipping clerk for a small...
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Sin is Enacted Atheism
I have thought for some time now that there is a direct relation between unbelief and sinfulness, and that *it runs both ways.* Thinking about God can be extremely hard when I feel really bad about how...
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Robert Locke on the War on Drugs
At the Thinking Housewife, Laura Wood links to and excerpts an article discussing how heroin use is ravaging Vermont. I immediately thought of Robert Locke’s 2001 essay Why We Must Not End the War on...
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Advice to the Single Young Man
Abstract I argue here that most men should attempt to marry, for several basic reasons. First, marriage is necessary for the survival of a people. Second, men (and women) need to be a part of a good...
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The Abomination of Desolation of the Marital Altar
The Eucharist is a participation in the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. But then likewise a true wedding is a participation in the Sacrifice at Golgotha.[1] The bed of marriage is properly an altar, where...
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Re-Post: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Masculine Narrative
[This is a much-revised version of an article that originally appeared some years ago at The Brussels Journal.] Prologue: Contemporary popular culture is as jejune as contemporary politics, with which...
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Atheism, Agnosticism and Cultural Low Self-esteem
I think … the skeptics are taking over atheism. …I am an agnostic, because I believe that is the human condition, and I am a skeptic, because I believe that is the most efficient way to live my life. A...
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New Article on the Destruction of Education
An article of mine has appeared at The Brussels Journal under the title, “Hannah Arendt and Richard Weaver on the Crisis of Western Education.” It is accessible at:...
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The Retortion of Social Construction
If the notion of the social construct is true, then the notion of the social construct is itself a social construct. It is without any basis in reality, so that there is no real reason we should notice...
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No Way Out – Only In
A proposition that cannot be carried into practice at all cannot be true. An act that cannot be implemented in actuality must be somehow incoherent: self-refuting – for example, you can’t mean it when...
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Essay on Rene Girard at The Brussels Journal
My latest at The Brussels Journal is an essay entitled “René Girard on the ‘Ontological Sickness.’” I taught Girard’s I See Satan Fall like Lightning to the students in my “Introduction to Literary...
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Ritual Purity With & Without God
The Social Gospel, the activities of Social Justice Warriors, Political Correctness, electioneering, and the like (and their counterparts on the right side of the aisle) are all desperate and in the...
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Reversion to the Mean
If there is a real world, and if it is consistently ordered, and if this consistent orderliness extends to the living portion of that world – these being the de minimis foreconditions of any sort of...
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A Modern Theory of Justice
THE MIKADO A more humane Mikado never Did in Japan exist, To nobody second, I’m certainly reckoned A true philanthropist. It is my very humane endeavour To make, to some extent, Each evil liver A...
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Why Modern Authorities are (Generally) Dishonest Manipulators
[This will not be news to most Orthosphere readers, but we need clear statements of basic principles to educate the young.] Not all authorities are dishonest manipulators, of course, but the higher...
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Resolving the Antithesis of the Manosphere’s and Traditionalism’s Views of Women
Note: This post makes generalizations about women and men. Intelligent readers know that generalizations of this sort are generalizations: Not all women, and not all men, are like that. When the...
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The Modern World in a Nutshell
Our leaders want to create a new world in which nobody is mean. (By “mean,” I mean “cruel,” not “average.”) But this is impossible. Meanness cannot be eliminated. Just telling people “Stop being mean!”...
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Plotinus and Augustine on Gnosticism
The trend of politics in the Western nations since Eric Voegelin’s death in 1986 has made his work increasingly relevant to any philosophically rigorous Conservatism or Traditionalism. In particular,...
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