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Nationhood or Nihilism: Identity as Philosophical Combat

Carlos Perona Calvete March 28, 2023

Defenders of ‘the nation’ often fall back on practical issues of scale and power balance, ignoring the Biblical and Platonic tradition that celebrates the diversity of nations as an aesthetic good.

Ties that Bind: Wendell Berry, the Bible, and Port William

Jonathon Van Maren February 2, 2023

Wendell Berry’s stories are an effective evocation of the world he loves and wishes to defend; as one friend put it to me: “His stories make me love what I should love and hate what I should hate.”

The Apple of His Eye: On Self-Reflection in Genesis

Michael W. Weyns November 6, 2022

To apply to myth the reigning science of the day, in an attempt to transform it into a factual chronicle of human affairs, means inevitably to mangle what is most intrinsic to myth: its kaleidoscopic abundance, its playfulness, its immeasurable depth.

The Metaphysics of Dogs
From Tobit, to Dominic, to Dante: Part I

Carlos Perona Calvete September 7, 2022

“The world is full of devouring wolves, and you, unfaithful dog, know not how to bark.”

The City that Falls

Carlos Perona Calvete September 1, 2022

In the arena of the culture war, ideas become political brands, stitched into the terrible body of the news cycle, until they share in that sickly bloodstream. Instead of building civic participation, they get their oxygen from media attention.

Conquering Without a King: Drawing Lessons from Biblical Monarchy

Carlos Perona Calvete August 30, 2022

The Bible recommends that kings be anointed after the conquest of their realm. Institutions are not to be founded in the throes of a crisis, which would result in their legitimising themselves through that crisis and so perpetuating it.

Tag: Bible

Nationhood or Nihilism: Identity as Philosophical Combat

Ties that Bind: Wendell Berry, the Bible, and Port William

The Apple of His Eye: On Self-Reflection in Genesis

The Metaphysics of Dogs
From Tobit, to Dominic, to Dante: Part I

The City that Falls

Conquering Without a King: Drawing Lessons from Biblical Monarchy

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