A Fragile Future for Democracy
It is my belief that rapid technological “progress” will always threaten a culture with social regress, and that mitigating that threat should be a priority.
In the Ruins of Western Civilization
Posted on July 28, 2022
Image: Byzantine mosaic, Gaziantep Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey; Shutterstock.
We can learn from the outdated Western Civ model, even as we transcend it.
Past Lives of the Paragraph
Posted on July 14, 2022
Image: Paragraph marks from Edwin Herbert Lewis, A History of the English Paragraph, 1894; background: Shutterstock.
Making a new paragraph is as easy as drawing a thin line in the margin.
Cognitive Behavioral Soulcraft
Cognitive wellness culture proposes to curate our attention so that we can better spend it.
Mechanization and Monoculture
Any attempt to create a monoculture is necessarily self-defeating.
What Is Going on with American Converts to Russian Orthodoxy?
by
Mikel Hill
Posted on June 14, 2022
Image: The dome of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Juneau, Alaska; Brett Johnson/Unsplash.
The circumstances that led to veneration of the tsar and his family cannot be so easily reduced to a reactionary craving for Christian theocracy.
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