Religio Philologi: Augustine on Science and Magic
The lust of our eyes leads to a lust of the mind which then seeks to make experiments and gain knowledge
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Road Trip Ready: Audiobooks We’ve Enjoyed
In the near future, we have quite a long road trip planned to the Midwest. One thing we’ve found that greatly helps while away the hours, especially across northern Indiana where everything looks like the set of a dystopian movie, are audiobooks.
In the near future, we have quite a long road trip planned to the Midwest. One thing we’ve found that greatly helps while away the hours, especially across northern Indiana where everything looks like the set of a dystopian movie, are audiobooks.
Darkness Visible: Part I Sir Isaac Newton, Preface
This is the first section of the first part of a series of articles on the central significance of occultism . Like many of the fathers of modern science and Enlightenment–René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Elias Ashmole, and Robert Boyle–Isaac Newton was a devoted alchemist and occultist.
The Burden of Personal Responsibility
Here is my take. Crimes should be about a human being harming another human being against the latter’s will (this includes property crimes).
Dunnage as Sackcloth
This essay on Operation Eagle Claw appeared two years ago on this website.
Recently more than in times past, the month of April triggers some ominous memories that have become more vivid somehow with distance in time. I had relegated my memories of the events of Operation Eagle Claw (OEC) to my mind’s recesses after leaving the First Ranger Battalion for Special Forces (SF) in August of 1980 following the ill-fated mission that past April.
Restoring My Faith in the SPLC
This noble organization is now under attack from bigots working for Donald Trump.
Podcast: The Victorian Age
The Victorian Age, though often depicted rigidly conservative and conventional, was actually a period of great cultural ferment, both revolution and counter-revolution
The Trumpery President
Virtually everything I read in the gutter press (Is there anything else?) is fabricated. Fake New is the only news, especially when it comes from the White House.
Rainbow Stew
Merle Haggard was anything but a political thinker—or even a particularly good songwriter—but, with the exception of one unfortunate line—his 1981 hit song “Rainbow Stew” summed up the common wisdom of disgruntled Americans.
