The Adventures of Captain Peabody

Mirrors and Magic: Fifth Business, Islam in Pakistan, Solaris  "We don't know what to do with other worlds: we don't need other...

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

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...

 Interiority and the Preternatural: Wilkie Collins, Henry James, and The Curse In art and life alike, it is important not to confuse the sup...

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

Prudence, Wisdom, and the Contemporary Crisis in Catholic Ethics I am going to attempt what I fully understand is both a very difficult and ...

Homo Vanus Patiens   On the Interpretation of Seven American Nights and A Modest Primer on How to Read Gene Wolfe The passing of Gene Wolfe...

Varieties of Leftism I recently finished a book on the French Syndicalist movement; around the same time, I have been reading "Distribu...

Apophaticism, Incarnation, Bythos: A Response to Timothy Troutner's "Five Theses on Apophaticism" Once upon a time, there was ...

The Trinitarian Controversy as the Culmination of Ancient Platonism Recently, while engaged in scholarly work, I suddenly had a moment of re...

 Benedict XVI, 1927-2022 I have been meaning to write this essay since the death of Benedict XVI. I am just now getting to it. Lots of light...

The Catholic Church and Coercion For the last five years or so, the American Catholic Internet-o-sphere has been awash with discussion and d...

Mini-Art-Criticisms: Star Wars, Fellowship of the Ring, There Are Doors, Star Trek The Motion Picture [ I am experimenting with various form...

Hilary of Poitier's Argument For Human & Divine Equality [ I was a bit under the weather and very busy this week, so instead of taki...

Note: Every possible kind of spoiler exists herein. Proceed at your own risk. The elusive, controversial American Catholic filmmaker ...

The year was 1989, and Star Trek: the Next Generation was finishing its second dismal season.  The new spinoff, born of the unprecedented...

This is a (relatively) brief outline of Church-State relations, mostly just the big phases and conflicts, focusing on the West and on th...

What is Star Trek? On some level, that's an easy question to answer.  We all know Star Trek: a television show (five television sho...

Pope Martin I "The police would not allow the holy man to land, though he was suffering severe pain.  Instead they went ash...

Disclaimer: This post is really long.  Like really, really long.  If you're gonna read the whole thing, you might want to get yourself ...