Wilderness and Wildness
On September 3rd, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act, establishing 9.1 million acres in 54 designated as protected “wilderness.” The act not only protected these regions from…
Rhetoric and the Morality of Hatred
Greg over at Counter-Currents recently republished my talk on hatred at the Northwest Forum in June, 2017. Incidentally, this was the month that an infiltrating "journalist" hit-man from Hope Not Hate…
Experimenting with Magic
When I was in High School, I broke my wrist. The injury temporarily prevented me from doing my ordinary activities, which included soccer, martial arts, and a free-form variety of…
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…