Cursed Are The Peace-Enforcers
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. --Matthew 5:9 Everyone looks up to the work of "peace-making," whether it is for secular humanitarian justifications…
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…
Sanguine Considerations
I had the privilege of enjoying a blood moon of sorts last night. I say "of sorts," as a true blood moon occurs only during a lunar eclipse. What we…
Hamlet’s Water
Hamlet is a masterpiece of a play by any measure, but the depth of its genius eluded me until I began rereading it recently. A few of the opening passages…
Laws for the Tribal New Right
The following is a list of guidelines for the success of New Right organizations. They are designed to emulate Jante Law and Vox Day's 16 Points: they are non-binding, but…
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…
Vanity and Improvement: An Ethical Evaluation of the Gym-Selfie
Pride may be a sin, but its true nature isn't how we're used to thinking about it: She says 'I've come of age as a writer in a time when…
Philosophy v. Theology
I was attending a New Year's dinner with some old friends a few years ago, when the subject of philosophy came up. My friend had a master's degree in computer…