May 01, 2019

Snow White and the Seven Liberal Arts: An Allegory for Modern Science

May 01, 2019/ Donald Boland

Modern science has really two roots. The first is an empirical or experiential view of the whole of nature, thought to come from Francis Bacon (though it can easily be traced to an earlier Roger Bacon [1214-1294] and others of the scholastics). The second, and more significant, is the “rational” or mathematical view of the same natural world we have already alluded to. Both these sources are evident in the modern “scientific method.”

This is not a simple deductive or inductive method, but a combination of both. The tension between these two makes it difficult for the modern mind to decide whether modern science is purely factually/empirically or hypothetically/mathematically based.

April 01, 2019

Home Alone: A Neighbor's Thoughts on Pete Buttigieg

April 01, 2019/ E. Michael Jones

Reading The Shortest Way Home, I found myself searching for literary models that might have influenced the author, who is also mayor of South Bend, Indiana, where I happen to live. The connections between me and the mayor of South Bend are actually closer than just living in the same city at the same time. The author grew up three houses down from where I have lived for the past 40 years and spent his entire life up to his 18th year in close proximity to me and, more importantly, to my five children. He is ten years younger than my oldest child, with whom he shares a remarkably similar educational trajectory. Both he and my son attended St. Joseph’s High School, roughly half a mile north of where we live. Both trod the same path to high school every day. Both ended up first in their respective classes, becoming valedictorians, which entitled them to speak at their respective graduations. And both then went on to attend Harvard University.

March 01, 2019

Co-opting Covington: Facecrime in Washington

March 01, 2019/ Blaise Thompson

Persecution appropriation, anyone? The spectacle of a Jew waving an Israeli flag placing himself at the head of the march is a familiar one, for instance the film The Big Short where Jews are transmuted by a sort of Philosopher’s Lead into the heroes of the Subprime Collapse. So it was only natural that the outrage generated by Covington would sooner or later be redirected in favour of its proper object. Someone would finally figure out how to claim Covington for the Jews.

March 01, 2019

Liberalism: The God That Failed

March 01, 2019/ Jeffrey Langan

In the summer of 2018, Barack Obama published a list of books worth reading. One was Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed. Obama’s assessment: “I don’t agree with most of the author’s conclusions, but the book offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril.”

Liberalism, according to Deneen, founded itself on the notion of securing liberty by granting rights, a free-market system, and space for individual initiative. But, as he takes stock of liberalism, he sees the liberal state as expanding in ways the founders of liberalism would have found frightening. Rights seem to be limited to the rights that the rich and powerful, the oligarchs, define as rights. Individual initiative and the free market system are more for the oligarchs, and those the oligarchs choose to enable, than for the average citizen in the liberal order.

March 01, 2019

A Post-Mortem of the Alt-Right Brand

March 01, 2019/ Laramie Hirsch

In terms of recent political history, 2016 was an exciting year. Donald Trump’s ascendance to the presidency was on everyone’s mind, and a surge of populism gripped the country like a fever. The Left had positioned what they believed was their most powerful, unsinkable candidate ever: Hillary Clinton. Yet, day by day, a cultural war against political correctness was gaining ground. On an hourly basis, it seemed, more and more people on the cultural and political Right were becoming less afraid of accusations and ostracism. For years, it seemed as if the country were being ruled by a brow-beating species of cultural Marxism. However, the time had finally come when people would collectively rise against Leftist oppression.

March 01, 2019

Werner Heisenberg and Jewish Science: Part III

March 01, 2019/ E. Michael Jones

The Volkswartbund no longer had any supporters in the government since Wuermeling stepped down from his cabinet post as result of the Spiegel affair. When the 82-year-old Cardinal Frings retired from his position as archbishop of Cologne in February 1969 because of old age, the Volkswartbund lost its most influential clerical supporter. The Volkswartbund had even become an object of ridicule in the Cologne chancery office and became less and less successful. It was now only a matter of time before the Church abandoned it.

March 01, 2019

All The Water We Need: A New Paradigm

March 01, 2019/ Anne Stinnett

A recent article in The Atlantic monthly by two Harvard historians1 proposed the establishment by the President of the United States of a Council of Historical Advisors. The reason is obvious: as the truism puts it, those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. This truism applies to the issue of water. Mid 20th-century California history is full of instruction for the present generation in its search for solutions to the West’s recurrent droughts and water insecurity. It brings to light a fact of enormous import for policy discussions on water conservation, the Salton Sea, and water security; namely, there is no shortage of water on Planet Earth.

February 28, 2019

Will World War III be Triggered by the Ukraine Crisis?

February 28, 2019/ Justus Chrysostom

The current Ukraine crisis is part of an historical effort by the Anglo-Saxon nations to dismantle Russia. Fearing the geographical sprawl of the Russian Empire going back four hundred years, as Russia spread eastward toward India, which was then the crown jewel of their Empire, the British determined that Russian power had to be broken. In the late 19th century Great Britain through the Rothschild Milner group began to recruit the United States through their subordinate banker J. P. Morgan to join their geopolitical interests together as they did not believe that they had the power alone to achieve these goals.

February 01, 2019

Werner Heisenberg and Jewish Science: Part II

February 01, 2019/ E. Michael Jones

Heisenberg admired America’s technical and industrial ability, yet, “even given their huge superiority in terms of scientists, technicians, and materials, America couldn’t produce the bomb before the war with Germany had ended.” The Germans, on the other hand, “decided that the German armaments potential was insufficient anyway, and that the war would probably be over before the weapon could play a role in its outcome, so let’s not get involved in its production.”

February 01, 2019

Review: From White Boy to Nice Guy - "Race With The Devil" by Joseph Pearce

February 01, 2019/ David Kerr

In some evangelical and Pentecostal Christian circles a popular part of "Olde Tyme Gospel Campaigns" is the "testimony meeting." The Preacher in charge invites one or two of the brothers and sisters present to "give a word of testimony." This generally follows a fairly conventional formula, something like: "I lived a dreadfully sinful life far away from God. I smoked. I took drugs. I drank. I hung about with bad women or a bad crowd. I did this, that and the other, but glory to God, I gave my heart to Jesus and now I have seen the light and lead a life in His service."

February 01, 2019

The White Guy Unmasked

February 01, 2019/ Jim Crow

The alt-right is supported by two pillars. The first pillar is rhetoric, the other pillar is genetic theorization. There was once a third pillar, being those responsible for organization protests and “marches,” but the events at Charlottesville destroyed that pillar, with no hope of revival.

January 28, 2019

Werner Heisenberg and Jewish Science: Part I

January 28, 2019/ E. Michael Jones

Bavaria is a land of lakes and mountains. The Koenigsee is a good example of what I mean. There is a beach here and there, but for the most part the mountainsides plunge directly into the lake. Steep banks mean deep waters, and the Koenigsee is no exception to the rule. The lake is almost as deep as the mountains next to it are high. The water is so clear—the boats near the shoreline seem to be floating on air—that you think you could see all the way to the bottom, but the bottom of the lake is a long way down—623 feet, to be exact—which makes it three times as deep as Lake Erie, one half the depth of Lake Superior, and 300 feet short of Lake Michigan at its deepest. The drama of the Koenigsee comes from its contrast with its surroundings because although it is almost as deep as Lake Michigan, it covers only two square miles, as opposed to the 31,000 square miles which Lake Michigan covers.

January 01, 2019

Cloning in the Fallen Kingdom - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

January 01, 2019/ John Tuttle

The latest installment of the Jurassic Park/World saga has hit theaters and taken a slight mix of receptions. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is not as agreeable as its immediate predecessor from a cinematic standpoint. Colleagues have, however, pointed out that the minor innuendos and crass moments from Jurassic World (2015) were almost entirely absent in this sequel.

January 01, 2019

De-Radicalizing Islam: Canevas de Method de Deradicalisation - Reviewed

January 01, 2019/ Anne B. Gardiner

The following review is essentially a summary of this excellent booklet published in France under the pseudonym “Foi.Terrain.Mediation.” Canevas de Methode de Deradicalisation [Sketch of a Method of Deradicalization] begins by asserting that all the attempts made by the French government to deradicalize Muslims have failed completely. The reason for this failure is that they have treated radical Islamic belief as a psychological or sociological phenomenon, reducing it to violence exalted for its own sake. They haven’t engaged with the underlying hopes and desires of the Islamists, especially the most fanatic. They haven’t taken Islamic belief seriously enough to understand the real mechanism that animates their actions.

January 01, 2019

Dead Letter Office

January 01, 2019/ John Beaumont

Your correspondent (Culture Wars, November 2018) is pleased to see letters printed in the magazine from countries outside the USA. Well, perhaps I can assist still further in this endeavor on a subject mentioned frequently in Culture Wars, namely the Jewish question.

There are four supposedly Catholic weekly papers in England. The Universe, and the Catholic Times are pretty anodyne, and the Tablet, although having a fine earlier history, long ago left the integral Catholic fold with much of its contents. This is so much so the case that its dissenting approach in the sixties to the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae led to its becoming known as “The Pill” (a pretty unsubtle pun!).

January 01, 2019

Owner of a Lonely Heart

January 01, 2019/ Mischa Popoff

How far will the homosexual movement go? Gay marriage, gay adoption, Christians forced to provide services for gay weddings, transgender bathrooms, sex-ed for kids, a panoply of gay characters on TV and in movies, perfectly groomed, impeccably dressed, charming, and reciting all the best lines. Why it’s enough to make your kid wish he were gay!

January 01, 2019

50 Shades of Libido Dominandi

January 01, 2019/ Jesse Russell

Last spring, Fifty Shades: Freed, the third installment of the notorious sadomasochistic film series based upon the books written by British novelist E. L. James, was released on DVD in America. The original novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, has spawned a franchise that has made author E.L. James over $95 million, and the movie adaptations are closing in on almost a billion and a half dollars. Despite its financial success, Fifty Shades as a franchise has been subject to incredible (and often hilarious) derision from critics--the Iranian novelist and author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, said of the first novel, after reading a couple of pages, “I’ve never read anything so badly written that got published. It made ‘Twilight’ look like ‘War and Peace.” Nonetheless, Fifty Shades of Grey is one of the most important and influential cultural artefacts of the 21st century and has caused a radical sea-change in Western sexuality.

December 01, 2018

Rainbow Over the World: From Tolerance to Equality - Reviewed

December 01, 2018/ Theo Howard

French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu said that to point out the social conditions and material interests underlying cultural values and modes is to “transgress… one of the fundamental taboos of the intellectual world.” To make such a transgression one is likely to be condemned as sacrilegious in the “attempt to treat culture, that present incarnation of the sacred, as an object of science.”

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Snow White and the Seven Liberal Arts: An Allegory for Modern Science

Home Alone: A Neighbor's Thoughts on Pete Buttigieg

Co-opting Covington: Facecrime in Washington

Liberalism: The God That Failed

A Post-Mortem of the Alt-Right Brand

Werner Heisenberg and Jewish Science: Part III

All The Water We Need: A New Paradigm

Will World War III be Triggered by the Ukraine Crisis?

Werner Heisenberg and Jewish Science: Part II

Review: From White Boy to Nice Guy - "Race With The Devil" by Joseph Pearce

The White Guy Unmasked

Werner Heisenberg and Jewish Science: Part I

Cloning in the Fallen Kingdom - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

De-Radicalizing Islam: Canevas de Method de Deradicalisation - Reviewed

Dead Letter Office

Owner of a Lonely Heart

50 Shades of Libido Dominandi

Rainbow Over the World: From Tolerance to Equality - Reviewed

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