Getting Back to Reading
YouTube has become the lazy-man's library. It is easy to sit and do some menial task (dishes, laundry, even a video game) while listening to some decent "educational" channel on…
A Case-Study in Hatred
I don't think I've ever listened to a debate and come away with a stronger feeling of having just wasted time than after listening to the Munk Debate on Political…
Hatred and the YouTube Shooting
In the aftermath of the YouTube shooting, I decided to tune in to Stefan Molyneux for the first time in a few months, and I felt like I was having…
Love, Hate, and Christianity
In In Defense of Hatred, I asserted that ἀγάπη (agape) is a form of love which is compatible with hatred, despite being incompatible with dehumanization: Translated literally, it means "affection," with a…
God in Solitude and Society
Here's an odd question: are we closer to God when we are with others? Or are we closer when we are alone? I recently made the case that God has…
The Homeric Political Paradigm
It has often been argued that all of politics can be boiled down to Plato versus Aristotle. Plato takes a lofty, idealistic approach to politics. He sees potentialities and perfect…
The Instagram Ethos
I'll take with me The Polaroids and the memories But you know I'm gonna leave Behind the worst of us --Selena Gomez, Kygo, "It Ain't Me" There is a certain…
The Slave Morality: An Alternative Hypothesis
The Slave Morality was a famous theory of the origins of "good and evil" proposed by Friederich Nietzsche, which argued that based on the etymological origins of the words "good" and…
Rhetoric and the Morality of Hatred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQaNnafo1w Yesterday, I presented In Defense of Hatred to the Northwest Forum, run in absentia by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents. My speech focused primarily on the importance of rhetoric in defending…
The Death of the Father
In my ongoing interrogation of the Nietzschean criticism of Christianity, I can't help but go into Nietzsche's own personal life. His criticism is framed in a very personal manner, both his…