Tuesday, September 29, 2026

The Great Choice: Collapse or Renewal?

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The Fall of the Soviet Union; Knights of the Old Republic 2; Let's Get Out of This Country Every great historical event happens because ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

On Being a God in the Modern Age

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A History of Japanese Religion; Joker 2; The Life of Charles de Gaulle How does a man become a god? Recently in this space, I discussed som...
Monday, September 7, 2026

On the Necessity of Time Travel for Human Life

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The Last Showgirl, The History of the Armenian Genocide, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, Magnolia Striving for goodness while the cruel men...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Against the Maxxers: Or, On the Necessarily Transcendental Nature of Ethics

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We are living in the Age of the Maxxers. That, anyway, is  what Sam Kriss thinks ; it's also what a surprising number of other cultural ...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

A Short and Succinct Four-Point Argument For Why You Should Never Use AI At All For Anything Ever and Actively Do Everything You Can to Prevent the US Government From Supporting It in Any Way

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[I have written about and against AI before, pointing out that the underlying technology and cultural orientation are nothing new , and argu...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a Sign of the Times

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Since I wrote my totally-completely-absolutely-justified-I-would-not-take-back-a-single-world denunciation of Christopher Nolan's Oppen...
Thursday, July 9, 2026

Everlasting Life: Annihilation, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, Stalin and the Bomb, The Unconsoled

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"You can combine up to a certain point; you can distort up to a certain point; after that you lose the identity; and with that you lose...