Is Western Civilization Misogynistic?
Resentment combines hatred and love/desire. Self-hatred and dissatisfaction often leads to imagining that someone else has it better and to resentfully desiring to be that…
Materialism
2017 Symposium – Urho Lintinen
Restraint: An Heroic Tale in Three Acts Every now and then, a social phenomenon reported by the omnipresent media drives me to engage with a…
2017 Symposium – Brett Stevens
Y3K Western identity never knew itself. Men of the West understood themselves as tribes and later nations, but never saw a need to unify…
The Illogicality of Physicalism – A Response to Cocks
In a series of essays at SydneyTrads and The Orthosphere, Prof. Richard Cocks has developed a fascinating account of the “illogicality of determinism.”1 It’s refreshing…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part III]
The BBC obituary for Venner begins with the following sentence: “Dominique Venner, the far-right French essayist who shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame…
The Pagan Ordeal of Dominique Venner [Part II]
The limitations in Venner’s thought once established, it becomes possible to set forth in parallel an apology for his philosophical contribution. Venner’s active participation in…
The Illogicality of Determinism – Further Considerations
In “The Illogicality of Determinism” (The Orthosphere, 19 March 2016) I point out the absurdity and contradictions of arguing for determinism.¹ The sheer pointlessness of…
The Reflexive Problem in Analytic Philosophy: Illogical Logicians
On some topics, most analytic philosophers embrace assertions that involve gross violations of logic and common sense. For instance, determinism is either accepted as true,…
A Reflection on Joseph Pearce’s “A Christian Response to Europe’s Crisis”
Joseph Pearce recently had a provocative article published in the UK’s Catholic Herald, titled “A Christian Response to Europe’s Crisis.”1 Some might not know who…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Character & Culture”
“The ultra-utilitarians are not only as completely lost for art and literature as the Puritans, but their point of view is far more catching. We…