The Adventures of Captain Peabody

Star Trek has reached a crisis and juncture and turning point--which is not unusual. If my very lengthy series of essays on this blog layin...

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...

Future Political Trends: A Study For roughly the past six months, I have been repeatedly mentioning, in my posts on this blog, my intention ...

Pope Francis (1936-2025) Of all the tasks a writer may attempt, evaluating a Pope is perhaps the hardest. The Papacy, as I have tried to emp...

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...

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

The Troubles of Beautiful Wealthy People: My Year of Rest and Relaxation and The Last Days of Disco There are things you need not know of, ...

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

Leonard Cohen's Death of a Ladies' Man , Sofia Coppola's Somewhere , and the Loneliness of Disordered Desire " I left a wom...

The Trouble with Catholic Journalism "Transparency" is the most important issue in the Catholic Church today. How do we know this?...

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

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

Why Star Trek Generations is the Best Next Generation Movie: Or, Against the Art of Simulation Before I begin this week's post, I would ...

Birthday Reflections on Identity, Time, and God [ My birthday was this past weekend. This got me thinking about life, time, God, identity, a...

Why Donald Trump Won in 2016, Why He Could Very Likely Win Again in 2024, and How to Keep That From Happening In the past week, I did someth...

In my last essay, I decided that I understood ancient Platonism. In this post, though, I will not pretend to understand modern physics. I wi...

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

Intimate Portraits of Madness: American Psycho, Uncut Gems, Remains of the Day [In this column, I will again return to the mini-art-criticis...

Alright, stop the presses: I want to write something in defense of the first two seasons of TNG. Now, before everyone stones me thr...