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Why We are Culturally Gnostic

I'd re-title David Brooks' recent op-ed about progressive sadness, "The Gnostification of America." He touches on four of Voegelin's six gnostic traits (and the other two are also present, but op-eds need to be short), starting with discontent. He points out that liberals

Study Shows You’re Nobody Until Somebody Loves You

Naomi Schaefer Riley at The Washington Free Beacon

Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover, I Suppose

I know nothing about this book except what I read in this review. If the reviewer is honest, the publisher isn't. Of course, the publisher is Doubleday, which is probably about as mainstream (corporate, legacy, establishment) media as you get, so it shouldn't surprise me that

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids

By Jamie Reed at The Free Press

Gandalf the Grey or Gandalf the Gay?

Ivy Tower News August 4, 2021 BOSTON. Tolkien was a devout Catholic like President Biden. And like President Biden, he embraced homosexuality. “It's pretty clear Gandalf was homosexual,” says Leonard Chadwick, Professor of Multicultural Studies at Enormous State University and noted Tolkien scholar. “Advances in Gay Studies, especially

The Antihumanist and Transhumanist Cometh

I posted this review-essay for one reason: I've been seeing Adam Kirsch's name a lot in The New Criterion and First Things (and other places). I guess his name has been popping up in those journals for years and I just hadn't noticed. Anyway,

Theorists: Left Hemispherists

The left hemisphere is the hemisphere of abstraction and theory. Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things, p. 30. The right hemisphere is the hemisphere of experience: fresh, unique, embodied . . . being present with things as they are. Id. The Brownstone Institute was built on the rubble of COVID policy. It'

Flow

A few writers and thinkers seem to have caught onto the same thing. I believe I could find a host of other thinkers, such as William James and Victor Frankl, who would agree with them: "When one is busy and absorbed in one's work, the very absorption

Cocktail Theology

By William Dailey at First Things

There aren't Economic Systems

The Great Reset appears to be an idea among the global elite that COVID gives them an opportunity to “reimagine” economic systems, along the lines that the elite think more appropriate. The problem is, there is no such thing as an “economic system.” People naturally pursue happiness. To paraphrase St.