Category: Essay

Lifted Level with the Skies?

If we do not wish for our reality to become a boundless, shapeshifting simulacrum, we may just need to rebuild the entire modern worldview from the ground up.

“Lost by Something”: Hemingway and Abortion

In Hills Like White Elephants Hemingway immortalized a conversation not just of that time, but of all times: a man trying to persuade a woman who is already a mother that she is not yet a mother.

Re-Building the Future: The Case of Cayalá

Cayalá should encourage both our traditionalist and voluntarist instincts. Its prosperity is a testament to traditional design principles, while the speed with which it was built shows us what is possible.

Percival’s Sister and Predatory Feminism

Percival’s sister’s bleeding out is instructive. It stands for the scattering of energies released from their proper, ordered course within the organism, in order that another may feed on them.

Can the European Union Be Saved?

The fact that demonstrating pride in one’s country is considered ‘fascist’ speaks to the utter insanity of the current ethos.

Yet the King Speaks: The Silent Descent of Language and Politics

Yet the King Speaks: The Silent Descent of Language and Politics

Consumer society and digital technology have demolished our linguistic spaces, shattering our foundational skillset for living virtuously and politically.

March 28, 2023
Disembodied Church and Zombie State

Disembodied Church and Zombie State

While the soul—like the Church—is indeed immortal, neither the body nor the State are. The zombie governments of this world shall continue to bounce off each other until they rot completely.

March 26, 2023
Alternate Histories, Altered Futures

Alternate Histories, Altered Futures

Alternate histories, by showing what could have been—and might yet be—treat the past as a traversable terrain.

The Philosophy of Toxophily, Part III: Archery as Wisdom

The Philosophy of Toxophily, Part III: Archery as Wisdom

All (good) philosophy begins with experience of reality—and such experience is the fundamental prerequisite for good archery.

March 24, 2023
The ‘Deep State’ Debate

The ‘Deep State’ Debate

The ‘Deep State’ is not some murky entity, hiding in the shadows; it is on full display, a former intelligence officer insists.

March 23, 2023
The Philosophy of Toxophily, Part II: Archery as self-mastery

The Philosophy of Toxophily, Part II: Archery as self-mastery

Archery, the Japanese have long believed, supplements the interior journey towards a state of wisdom, a journey that to some degree we must all undertake if we are to avoid becoming a nuisance to others.

March 22, 2023
The Right’s Generational Divide: Why Boomer-Cons and Young-Cons are Suspicious of Each Other

The Right’s Generational Divide: Why Boomer-Cons and Young-Cons are Suspicious of Each Other

It is as if, in the boomer-con’s mind, liberalism is a ‘nice principle’ that ought to temper the ‘nasty but necessary principle’ of conservatism. Young-cons, however, don’t identify liberalism with niceness at all.

March 22, 2023
The Philosophy of Toxophily, Part I: Archery as civilisation

The Philosophy of Toxophily, Part I: Archery as civilisation

Archery takes that great inheritance of which we’ve been robbed and retrieves it in distilled and concentrated form.

March 20, 2023
The American New Right’s Message to Europe: Limits, not Liberty

The American New Right’s Message to Europe: Limits, not Liberty

In a country that’s been binge-drinking at the font of liberty for a half-century, the American New Right is betting that the hangover is setting in.

March 19, 2023
The Vision of Old Sarum

The Vision of Old Sarum

It is no wonder that the countryside and small towns have always remained a bastion of traditionalism, naturally suspicious of progress and resistant to change.

March 17, 2023
Incels: Grossly Misunderstood

Incels: Grossly Misunderstood

There is a dark fascination with incels in our culture, but narratives surrounding these disenfranchised young men fluctuate between the sensationalist and the downright stupid.

March 16, 2023
<strong>Environmentalists<sup>TM</sup>: Nature vs. Art</strong>

<strong>Environmentalists<sup>TM</sup>: Nature vs. Art</strong>

The green banner of environmentalism rightfully belongs to those who resist the ideology of entropy, the global breakdown of every function and form, from borders to genders.