thoughts in and out of season
People who lived through communism tell me that a big difference between the political lunacy then and now is that people today actually believe what they’re told. That seems true. There doesn’t seem to be an inner circle running things that recognizes the difference between prolefeed and what’s actually going on. For all I know … More ...
John Derbyshire notes that today Nazis are everywhere. Everybody our rulers find objectionable, including both sides in the Ukraine war, are Nazis. He says it’s “because they are mentally lazy and view the world in terms of simplified narratives.”
To my mind it’s less laziness than an extremely limited understanding of what’s real. As they … More ...
If we live in an age of expertise, how come everything’s so stupid? I discuss.
What do you do about it when everything we’re told seems generated by a Martian AI program? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
Where is the real deal in an age of propaganda? I discuss.
The sexual binary through classical eyes. At Catholic World Report.
Is traditionalism “dead ashes”? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
Freedom is another word for — what? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
I watched the Towers burn on 9/11 from where I lived, three miles away. At Chronicles Magazine I comment on how it seemed and how it seems.
I remember 9/11 at Catholic World Report.