Contrary to what is typically asked of him, the just man does not need imagination but attention. Poetry, too, requires a kind of pure, focused attention.
Philosopher Emmanuel Falque asks what Christians might now say that could actually matter to their post-Christian contemporaries in the academy or the arts.
Conceiving of our deepest selves in terms of neuroses and traumas sends us continually back on ourselves in a way that may reproduce rather than redress our anguish.
Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.
The writer Curtis Yarvin advances a monarchist politics that’s too elitist even for fascism. His only real talent is pitching reaction in a hipster vocabulary.
