I can attest, spending much time among devout Christians, that Dreher has done it again, capturing our present mood: we’re trapped between wanting to throw ourselves into movement politics to defeat The Beast, or looking inwards in the hopes of becoming the change one wants to see in the ...
Our belief in perfectibility is very recent and strange in historical terms. For thousands of years, the inherent brokenness of the human animal was a cultural given. All substantial human endeavours – marriage, child-rearing, a career, politics – were understood to unfold against a backdrop...
As Milan Rai wrote in their 1995 bookChomsky’s Politics, there can be no doubt that Chomsky is a major influence both politically and philosophically. Chomsky’s academic influence has chiefly been through his work in linguistics in claiming that the capacity for language is innate in human bei...
following Donald Trump’s decisive election victory. The surge highlights the opportunity that investors, bankers and others in finance are hoping to embrace over four years of tax cuts, deregulation and economic expansion. “Investors are celebrating,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment...
politics,' when they have hitherto had something better to do and think about, and when in the depths of their souls they have been unable to free themselves from a prudent loathing of the restlessness, emptiness, and noisy wranglings of the essentially politics-practising nations;—supposing ...
In the early modern period, for example, one of the key reasons for travel was as a form of intelligence gathering. Young men were encouraged to visit other countries as a form of education, but equally to gather potentially valuable information about governments, politics and defence, as well...
This writer apologizes for severely testing readers’ patience with the above quotations. Making sense of them is like wading through a swamp in hiking boots. But paraphrasing would not convey the tortured prose or underlying smugness. It all seems ridiculous and ripe for ridicule, but it...
How does this stuff not hurt to some extent? I mean, that’s its purpose. -Rush Limbaugh Our media outlets are funded by weapons contractors, big pharma, big banks, big oil and big, fat hard-on pills. (Sorry to go hard on hard-on pills, but we can’t get anything resembling hard...
Swampwitch, Gainesville Fl I love your website. Your information is so factual and relevant. Thank you for debunking and demystifying certain theories that exist in the world today. You are truly a hero.KG, Washington I have been listening to Skeptoid for over a week, it had started from...
” The former president’s language has always fed the fear of so many white Americans, language that has also been used by those who lead their churches. The goal of the former president and his minions has not been to save America; it has been, rather to empty the current “swamp” ...