Life and Culture
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So you want to talk about Vladimir Putin’s geopolitical theology. Fine. But first, we have to acknowledge something that makes the secular humanists in the audience break out in hives: the entire moral architecture of the West—the rights, the dignity, the universal hand-holding—is just Christianity with the serial numbers filed off. Whether you’re kneeling in…
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The Problem of American Theological Empathy The question posed—whether the Puritan tradition, so quick to condemn the poor for lack of spiritual receptivity, was itself a perpetrator of profound empathy failure toward Black Americans—opens a philosophical wound in the American moral consciousness. This is not merely a historical curiosity but an ongoing structural reality that…
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A Philosophical and Cultural Analysis The Unknowing Jeremiad Josh Brolin’s interview with Graham Bensinger presents itself as a casual Hollywood conversation—two men discussing career, family, and the peculiarities of fame. Yet beneath the surface of this ostensibly secular exchange lies a remarkably coherent theological architecture, one that Brolin himself seems only partially aware of. His…
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Philosophical Examination of Crime and Punishment and America’s Bizarre Protestant Obsession with Sexuality In the American juridical imagination, the prosecution of sexual deviance rarely provokes theological introspection; it is met with bipartisan nods of visceral, pre-reflective certainty. To question why a consensual adult act earns a lifetime public registry, or why a single sexual transgression…
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There are cases where the justice system fails because people are stupid. There are cases where it fails because people are lazy. And then there are cases where it works exactly the way it is designed to work: like a marble-columned protection racket for people with badges, titles, pension plans, and the institutional survival instincts…
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Subtitle: Why Many Young Americans Report Paralyzing Dating Anxiety In the aftermath of #MeToo, Title IX reforms, and a generation steeped in therapeutic discourse, the United States has embraced a seemingly enlightened principle: consent is not a one‑time yes but a continuous, retroactively revocable process. At any moment, any past act can be reclassified as…
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In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone,” argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. The entire “woke” era could be extrapolated from…
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The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists. Trump’s designation of the amorphous group antifa, which has no formal organization or structure, as a terrorist organization permits the state to charge us all as terrorists. The…
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By: Christopher Maffei This time I was ready! – (but), conversely I was late. In a semi-jog and with powder skis in hand, the helicopter came into view. I placed my skis into the helicopter’s utility basket, grabbed the airframe strap, and hopped into the AS-350. Then, strapped on my belt – and closed the…