I Started a Substack

In case anyone didn’t get the memo, I recently started a Substack called The Epimethean. In one of my recent offerings, “When the Machine Stops, We Still Have Each Other,” I explored how…

America and the Collapse of Politics

How Raw Power Became the New Politics, How Nihilism Became the New Progressivism, and How Progressivism Became the New Conservatism In the March/April 2023 issue of Touchstone, Adam MacLeod described the ideological…

The Myth of Alexander Dugin

Today I read Michael Millerman’s First Things article on Alexander Dugin, and listened to Rusty Reno’s interview with Millerman, after being repeatedly encouraged by a family member to delve more deeply into the…

Politics isn’t as Important as You Think

In a 2021 article on the January 6th insurrection, I made some observations about “the political illusion,” that I’d like to share again here. The “political illusion” is the idea that all…

Using Cultural Apologetics and Story-Telling to Reclaim The Beauty of Struggle

Struggle is good. It is through struggle that you and I become the sort of people we are, and it is through struggle that we form the attitudes and dispositions that eventually…

How Christian Teachers Can Address the Information Literacy Crisis

In an earlier article I explored how some high school teachers are abandoning writing as a teachable skill. Why require students to master the craft of essay writing when ChatGPT can produce content…

Caesar’s Authority

Now that the film, The Essential Church (a hash of anti-intellectual Protestant propaganda and personality worship camouflaged in sickening pseudo-spirituality) is available on Prime, it seems a fitting time to re-post my…

I’ve Started a Substack

Dear Readers, I wanted to let you know that I started a Substack. Over the years I’ve been quite impressed with their publishing platform and how it’s integrated with email, so I…

How De-humanizing Art Parodies the Sacramental Vision

Readers of this blog will know that I write quite a bit about art. One of the rewarding aspects of my recent project with Ancient Faith was the opportunity to tie together…

Ackerman on Racism at Harvard

Bill Ackerman, a card carrying Democrat, had some trenchant observations in The Free Press about what is happening to Harvard as it is colonized by leftist ideologues (and, as a result, racists).…

The Rev. Alistair Begg Controversy and the Problem With American Evangelicalism

The latest evangelical freak-out is because celebrity pastor, Rev. Alistair Begg, gave pastoral advice to a podcast listener, saying it was okay to attend a transgender wedding on love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin grounds. As online…

Gender Archetypes in the Early Scientific Revolution

From The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, by Carolyn Merchant, p. 16: In the sixteenth century, the marriage and impregnation of the female earth by the higher celestial…


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