The Adventures of Captain Peabody

Requiem for the Homeless in an Age of Cruelty [ As I've repeatedly tried to emphasize in this space, one of the biggest issues in 21st...

What Went Wrong? Hitchcock's  Vertigo ,  Sofia Coppola's  The Virgin Suicides, and  Gene Wolfe's  Peace "What went wrong? T...

[ This is an old essay I wrote for a local Catholic publication a number of years ago. I am reposting it now for obvious reasons.] Don’t Fol...

Future Heresies: A Thought Experiment The following post will most likely interest very few people; but, well, it interests me.  I have spen...

The Big Lie: A Thesis on Modernity and Contemporary Intellectual History I have recently been reflecting on the overwhelming role that lies ...

Real Politics: A Manifesto for the 2024 Election (Or Any Other Election) I recently posted an essay declaring (somewhat exaggeratively) tha...

The Triumph of the Cultural Mainstream and The Decline of the American Empire   Here's a "personality quiz" of sorts for you: ...

 [ This story is based on real events. ] “Where is Jeanine? The meeting is about to start.” The menu of the Rockhouse Cafe had changed agai...

The Millennial Sovereign, the Real Story of Star Trek, and the Problem of Charisma What is it that makes a human person more than just anoth...

[This short story recently came to me in a dream, complete and pretty much as you read it below.] The Arrest “It’s good to be back.” Harry M...

Food, Conspiracy, and the Homo Imperialis: A Theoretical Look at the Political Crises of Modernity Over the last few months, years, and/or d...

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla is a Disturbing Affirmation of Humanity What do we want, and why do we want it? And what would happen if we g...

American Ghost Story:  The Shining, The Jazz Singer, Invisible Man   I've been sick recently, and have thus had the time and lack of ene...

Pope Francis and the Third World War In the far-off year 2014, the sun shone, Barack Obama was President of the United States, The Hobbit: B...