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Read more about the article The Deplatforming Takes Heartiste

The Deplatforming Takes Heartiste

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:May 12, 2019
  • Post category:Culture/Free Speech
  • Post comments:1 Comment

It seems that WordPress has taken down Chateau Heartiste. I don't know what part of the Terms of Service Heartiste supposedly violated. It seems as though the pretense of objectivity…

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Read more about the article Fire-Circle

Fire-Circle

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:May 6, 2019
  • Post category:Poetry
  • Post comments:1 Comment

By food and drink, the bonds we make Around the fire by the lake; Though waves exhaust and embers burn, To this circle we return; Some depart, to flee the…

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Read more about the article Are Fascism and Ethno-nationalism Mutually Exclusive?

Are Fascism and Ethno-nationalism Mutually Exclusive?

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:May 3, 2019
  • Post category:Philosophy/Politics
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Here is a question for the political far-right: If the heart of fascism is the belief that the nation arises from the state, but the core belief of ethno-nationalism is…

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Read more about the article Notre Dame: Raging at the Dying of the Panda

Notre Dame: Raging at the Dying of the Panda

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:April 19, 2019
  • Post category:Art/Religion
  • Post comments:0 Comments

I have a lot of mixed feelings about the Fire of Notre Dame. On the one hand, it is an indescribable tragedy. One of the most majestic and awe-inspiring feats…

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Read more about the article The Camera and the Wrench

The Camera and the Wrench

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:April 18, 2019
  • Post category:Philosophy/Poetry
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Everyone wants power, And this is not a sin -- The strength to lift your furniture, The speed and skill to win -- Everyone wants power, For those without aren't…

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Read more about the article Why is Sex Associated with Death?

Why is Sex Associated with Death?

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:April 8, 2019
  • Post category:Philosophy/Psychology
  • Post comments:3 Comments

It isn't just the French la petite mort -- the "little death" -- that binds the mysteriously opposed forces of sex and death together. Death has long been associated with…

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Read more about the article The Fruits of the Sexual Revolution

The Fruits of the Sexual Revolution

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:April 5, 2019
  • Post category:Culture/Gender
  • Post comments:3 Comments

You don't have to disagree with the premise of the sexual revolution (as I do) in order to accept that its results have been counter-productive to its stated aims. The…

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Read more about the article Leaving Crow-Country: Reflections on Domestication and Suburbia

Leaving Crow-Country: Reflections on Domestication and Suburbia

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:April 3, 2019
  • Post category:Culture/Philosophy
  • Post comments:1 Comment

I didn't always live in hawk-country. I used to live in crow-country. Notwithstanding that crows live everywhere, I am referring specifically to urban suburbs -- the sorts of new developments…

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Read more about the article The Silent Statue

The Silent Statue

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:March 25, 2019
  • Post category:Poetry
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Was "cold command" what Shelley saw, When looking Ramses in the eye? Dead and gone was man to king -- And statue lived beneath that sky; He wrote his hate…

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Read more about the article Free Speech and Violence: A Paradox

Free Speech and Violence: A Paradox

  • Post author:C.B. Robertson
  • Post published:March 24, 2019
  • Post category:Free Speech/Law
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At the suggestion of a friend, I have been reading over a little bit of Brandenburg v. Ohio, the 1969 legal case which most definitively decided that one's right to…

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