“I don’t care what you think unless it’s about me.” — Kurt Cobain In the third book of Ovid’s Metamorphosis, the reader is charmed with the tale of Narcissus and Echo: a beautiful young man who spurned the raptures of love with a cursed water nymph. Having despised the affections of countless suitors […]
In the pallid light of America’s last election, how then shall we make sense of such a monumental absurdity, where half our countrymen broke ranks with reason and saw fit to continue on a course that most assuredly will send us on an accelerated course over the falls? What psychic lure has propelled the Progressives […]
If you believe that America can successfully sever social from fiscal conservatism and call the resulting abomination some species of prudent constitutionalism, then you my friends are gravely mistaken. By attempting to do so, we prove that we have profoundly misunderstood the moral-political implications of our Founding: which emanated by way of the “god of […]
Behold the Man in ruins. Because we have not drank deeply enough of God, this spectacle of Passion — bathed in blood and ribboned flesh set before us every spring, has been relegated by a bloodless Modernity as either a callow backdrop for children’s baskets or an abstraction of the primordial myth of death […]
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” –C.S. Lewis I have been getting more than a few e-mails as of late whose gist runs in the vein of intense dissatisfaction at what has occurred since the last election. It seems that many a patriot has gone […]
“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” Thomas Paine Any aficionado of Golden Age comic magazines circa WWll will tell you that their writers and artists of that era were not kind to America’s Axis enemies. Indeed, characterizations of the Nazis as monocled Teutonic monsters and the […]
It is first important to note that the film, Captain America: the Winter Soldier, which opened up recently to rave reviews, owes its pedigree to an older branch of what is now termed as the Marvel Universe. Having emerged from the fruitful minds of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in 1940, this All-American super-hero […]
The more ripened I become, which is really just that self-delusionary way of saying I am “ontologically antique,” the more I realize the fact that self-deception is a double edged feature that helps conserve our psychic equilibrium – tentatively offering an illusory but necessary species of faux-hope for we bitter clingers to bitterly […]
It is with great regret that we should find ourselves in such evil times; and I wish from the deepest cavity of my heart that it were not so. But the great City of Human Liberty, whose strongholds were once thought impregnable, is slowly dying — not through the stratagems of the barbarous who […]
When commenting on freshly-minted current events such as the Pennsylvania high school “Knife Massacre,” it’s probably prudent to tread lightly, since blood and passion are a volatile mix and any attempt at exposing the philosophical nakedness of others or in tapping into irony is invariably met with the charge of indecent political opportunism. Fortunately, […]
