The Well Run Dry

Over the last year or so, I've been discussing the narcissism of First World culture, and especially of Anglo-American culture.  I'v...

After yesterday's post, I thought about further information on the Paris attacks.  This was information I had not considered while writi...

Many Europeans are becoming quite upset at the refugee crisis in Europe.  There is increasingly violent rhetoric being directed against the ...

Blogging is hard work, if it is to be done right.  What is required for an intelligent blog is strong subject matter, well-thought, well-res...

This past week, a co-worker and I were discussing the sorry state of world affairs. He had mentioned to me the fact that members of wealth...

After I wrote my last post, it occurred to me that I had completely neglected three men who comprise what is quite possibly the strongest ...

In his book, The Great Divorce , C.S. Lewis stated that it is impossible to remedy the fact that one is going in the wrong direction by...

The United States is a selectively forgetful nation, thanks to the mainstream media in this country. We are trained to remember everyt...

...If as a culture we can't imagine a history – any history – if history isn't a dimension of our quotidian daily live...

I guess Congress is trying once again to pass laws that would make the Internet no longer free. These laws are being pushed by lobbyists fo...

You know, I have to admit that I've been a bit in the dark regarding world news lately. I've been backed up with a mo...

In my last post, I discussed the fallen tendency of some of us humans to conduct ourselves as predators and to regard all the rest of hum...

As some long-time readers of mine may have noticed, my blogging has undergone a bit of a hiatus over the last year. This was due to my w...

Our knowledge of history is under threat in the United States – especially our accurate knowledge of recent history. An accurate knowled...

It came to my attention recently that "Path to Freedom," the urban homesteading project of Jules Dervaes and his family, has made ...

I'll start this post with an illustration. Lasers are interesting devices. The word “laser” is actually an acronym formed from the ...