After many months, The Hero and the Man is finally up on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Man-Language-Homeric-Idealism/dp/1653884800/ref=zg_bsnr_11053_11?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=AD4HMKH07E70PC11CSNS If you have an interest in Homer (or the classics generally), the philosophy of language, religion,…
A college professor recently posted a review of In Defense of Hatred, offering it as a possible critical thinking tool for students to evaluate contrarian arguments: After rereading the book…
In preparation for his upcoming book Make America Hate Again, Milo Yiannopoulos had me on as a guest on his show "Friday Night's All Right." We talked about hatred, disgust,…
Eric Grant Claussen from Cultivate Virtue reviews Holy Nihilism: The Moral and Spiritual Case Against Christianity: I’ve read most of the anti-Christian authors worth their salt.Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and others.This…
I think it's worth saying a word about "systemic racism," now that recent politics has brought critical race-theory into the public eye. The concept of systemic racism is a creation…
My interview on the Godcast is now up. Overall, I think it went very well. In retrospect, I probably could have presented my argument a little bit more directly, but…
There is one argument against wearing masks that I haven't heard anyone else making: masks are inherently anti-social. Our sixth amendment guarantees us the right to be "confronted with the…
Since the beginning of philosophy, people have debated about who should be philosophizing because it is understood that the philosophy arrived at will, in some manner, reflect the nature of…
In his book Why Homer Matters, Adam Nicolson pointed out how people seem to generally fall into two camps: those who like the Iliad, and those who like the Odyssey.…
One strength of the concept of the Anwei (the "spirit of the lineage") is that it acknowledges the inheritance of legacy, but it does so without falling into the trap…