Walk Away

The Illusion of Choice and the Responsibility to Walk Away

A recent exchange online captured a recurring tension in the debate raging around entertainment and consumer culture. One side argues that people don't actually want good products—they want easy products. Ease of access governs most consumer decisions, which is why streaming services, retail giants, and movie franchises dominate the market.…
December 16, 202410 Comments
Trump - Student Debt

Trump’s Higher Ed Plan: A Template to Relieve Student Debt?

The student debt crisis is a ticking economic time bomb that threatens everyone from young borrowers unable to start families to older Americans facing financial hardship well into retirement. Regular readers know I've outlined a two-step plan to defuse the student usury crisis through government debt cancellation and seizing university endowments…
November 12, 202412 Comments
Tolkien - Wolfe vs Materialism

Why Materialism Holds Back the Right’s Next Great Storytellers

Over on X, Isaac Young posted an insightful thread in which he sought to answer why the new counterculture has not yet produced a successor to J.R.R Tokien or Gene Wolfe. It's definitely worth a read. Young touches on something profound in his critique of how modern storytelling, particularly on…
November 6, 20244 Comments
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Nietzsche Bros Fail the Nietzsche Test

A vocal online contingent Christians have had to contend with in recent years are the Big-brained Nietzsche Bros. In general, this group can be defined as wanting to enjoy all the benefits of living in Christendom while also living unfettered by Christian morals. This related item from X was brought…
October 14, 202417 Comments
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The Cavalry Ain’t Coming

Success in any contest, whether it's athletic, cultural, or spiritual, requires an understanding of the situation grounded in reality. That also means adhering to the time-tested maxim "Know thyself." The enemy in the current battle for Christendom's soul spent the past century on a long march through the institutions and…
August 23, 2024
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The New Norm Is a Scam at Best

Public reaction to animated web series The New Norm has ranged from cringing to sad head shaking since the show's first promos dropped. It turns out we weren't cynical enough. Not only is it worse than we thought, The New Norm is a scam at best. And in all likelihood,…
August 1, 20247 Comments
Cathedral - Cult + Culture

You Can’t Spell ‘Culture’ Without ‘Cult’

Chesterton famously said that an idea that's attacked from both sides for opposing reasons is probably true. Even the most historically illiterate of our guys have to acknowlege that the ruling cult's rise to dominance tracked with Christendom's abandonment of Christ. After all, you can't spell "culture" without "cult". Another…
July 24, 202426 Comments
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Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race

Joe Biden's incresaingly obvious declining faculties, along with growing calls for him to step down, didn't keep the flagging candidate's decision to drop out of the presidential race from springing its share of surprises. For instance, many outlets, including this blog, expected him to have exited much sooner. President Biden…
July 22, 202430 Comments
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The Best Propaganda

Statistician to the Stars William M. Briggs is known for pointing out that love of theory is the root of all evil. After all, theory is a hell of a drug, offering simple answers to complicated problems. The intrinsic appeal of simplicity goes a long way toward explaining why som…
July 17, 202412 Comments