By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition From the colonial era onward, the Puritan spirit has shaped the American tendency to mark outsiders as deviant. Kai Erikson’s Wayward Puritans showed that in seventeenth-century Massachusetts Bay, trials of witches, heretics, and dissenters were not simply about eliminating wrongdoers but about drawing […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition From the earliest colonial settlements in New England, the Puritan spirit has cast a long shadow over American life. Rooted in the ideals of moral discipline, community surveillance, and religious posturing, this ethos has shaped not only the institutions of the United States […]
by J. R. Sommer Arktos Journal and J. R. Sommer Sep 11, 2025 J. R. Sommer meditates on the absurdity and meaninglessness of life corralled into social contract, the technological matrix, and dopamine addiction, shedding light on how existential angst can be the first step to freedom and […]
Troy Southgate Sep 10, 2025 IN Part Three of this series we saw how Monism often adopts a materialistic guise and, thus, reduces everything to the level of a “material process”. Similarly, Part Eight examined the Monist tendency to combine Realism and Idealism, with Steiner portraying Metaphysical Realism […]
Troy Southgate Sep 09, 2025 WHILST the percept allows us to form a concept by way of thought, at which point we make a connection between the two, Steiner suggests that when we observe the thought-process itself we find ourselves involved in a “self-sustaining activity” that represents an […]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 TRUMP: OUR NATION NEEDS GOD At the Religious Liberty Commission hearing yesterday, President Donald Trump announced new federal guidance protecting prayer in schools and said America must “bring back religion.” He insisted, “To have a great nation, you have to have religion… There has to […]
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 SPACE COMMAND LEAVES COLORADO FOR ALABAMA President Donald Trump announced the US Space Command will relocate to Huntsville, Alabama, which will now be known as “Rocket City,” creating 30,000 jobs and major investment. Projected taxpayer savings from the move amount to about $480 million compared […]
Troy Southgate Sep 03, 2025 STEINER makes an interesting point about the difference between observation and conceptualisation. If we think of the way in which one billiard ball strikes against a second and thus determines its consequent speed and direction, it is clear that when it comes to […]
Troy Southgate Sep 02, 2025 FEW would deny that Steiner’s greatest influence was the famous German poet and playwright, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), after whom he named the world centre for his Anthroposophical movement. The Austrian cites a verse from Goethe’s two-part play, Faust (1790), to illustrate […]
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 POPE LEADS GLOBAL CHURCH IN PRAYER FOR MINNEAPOLIS VICTIMS Pope Leo yesterday prayed publicly for the victims of last week’s shooting in Minneapolis. “Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school Mass in the American State of Minnesota include the countless […]
Troy Southgate Sep 01, 2025 THE question of whether we make our own decisions, rather than act out of pure necessity, is one that has preoccupied some of the greatest minds in history and yet when it comes to accounting for the complex nature of human thoughts and […]
Beyond politics lies the call to overcome the will-to-machine. J. R. Sommer Aug 31, 2025 J. R. Sommer contends that politics only distracts from the real task: overcoming the will-to-machine through the spiritual self-emptying taught by Meister Eckhart. Several years ago I heard an advert for Mensa on […]
New App Offers Anonymous Reporting of Antisemitic Incidents in Real Time Antisemitic violence and harassment are climbing worldwide alongside vandalism, discrimination and anti-Israel messaging designed to erase Jewish identity and delegitimize the Jewish State. Too often, these acts go unreported, allowing hate to spread unchecked. A new smartphone […]
Christian Missionary Caught Masquerading as Orthodox Rabbi A Christian missionary from Argentina spent years masquerading as an Orthodox rabbi in Israel, pocketing tens of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting Jews while secretly performing baptisms and forging religious documents. Ariel Katzenberg, whose real name is Gonzalo Cabral, operated his […]
The Jason Jones Show Aug 19, 2025 A feeling comes over me when I talk with fellow conservatives about Gaza. It’s a feeling that pricks at my conscience and leaves me agitated and restless – like I’ve just been wasting precious time. And no wonder: as a Catholic, […]
Posted on August 25, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) The embrace of our belonging to nature is an important step in restoring a sense of the sacred to our world, as we saw in my last essay, but it still does […]
32-Year-Old Faces Terrorism Charges After Threatening to ‘Blow Up’ Phoenix Synagogue A 32-year-old Glendale man appeared in court Friday facing terrorism charges after posting detailed threats on social media targeting a Phoenix synagogue. Kevin Charles Pyles was arrested and charged with making terrorist threats and computer tampering after […]
Posted on August 22, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) “The only hope, or so it seems to me, lies in a reenchantment of the world”, writes Morris Berman in his book thusly titled. [1] “Some kind of holistic or participatory consciousness […]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 FBI RAIDS DC RESIDENCE OF JOHN BOLTON FBI agents raided the residence and office of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton. Reuters reported that “a source familiar with the matter” said the search was part of a national security probe into classified information leaks. […]
By Rev. Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, August 21, 2025 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) Lindsey Graham says God will ‘curse’ US if it stops supporting Israel. The above is the title of a news article. […]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 POPE CALLS FOR DAY OF FASTING & PRAYER FOR PEACE Pope Leo has issued a dramatic worldwide call for all Catholics to dedicate Friday, Aug. 22 to prayer and fasting for peace. On the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, he said, every Catholic should […]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 TRUMP HOPES PEACE EFFORTS GET HIM INTO HEAVEN President Donald Trump told an interviewer that his efforts to end the war in Ukraine could be one of his chances of reaching Heaven. “I want to try and get to heaven if possible,” he said. “I […]
Posted on August 20, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Because the magic in our lives has been deliberately removed by the industrial slave-system, because our all-round withness has been deliberately stolen from us, we are obliged to take deliberate steps to […]
Coming soon to a city near you? By Mihailo S. Zekic • August 12, 2025 The New York Times released an interview with Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League (adl), on August 9. The adl has discredited itself in many ways, particularly with its incessant criticism of […]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 FEDERAL COURT: LITTLE SISTERS MUST PAY FOR CONTRACEPTION A federal court ruled against the Little Sisters of the Poor’s bid to be exempted from providing contraception to staff. The nationwide ruling yesterday blocked conscience protections set in place by the Trump administration. READ TRUMP & PUTIN […]
Posted on August 13, 2025 by winter oak by W.D. James Heroes are willing to give their lives, and in the old tales usually do, to protect their homes and loved ones. Their deaths are literally salvific. Beowulf suffering his mortal wounds acquired in destroying the dragon saves […]
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12 POPE LEO PRAISES ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN PEACE DEAL Pope Leo on Sunday praised the recent peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, urging world leaders to reject war and take responsibility for resolving conflicts. The historic agreement followed a peace summit in Washington, DC, where President Donald Trump […]
Troy Southgate Aug 12, 2025 ALTHOUGH Although I have discussed the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) at length on a number of occasions, here I would like to explore his ideas on political freedom. From Spinoza’s perspective, an individual is only free to the extent that he is […]
Posted on August 11, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Over recent centuries we have, as Mircea Eliade points out, witnessed “a gigantic transformation of the World taken on by industrial societies and made possible by the desacralisation of the Cosmos under […]
Self-described evangelicals like Ted Cruz and Mike Johnson have no interest in how Israel treats Christians. Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos has spent years living in the region. They should listen to her. Visit https://cmep.org/ and https://www.telosgroup.org/ for more information. Paid partnerships: Byrna: Go to https://Byrna.com or your local Sportsman’s […]
Netanyahu Lays Out Five Principles for Ending Gaza War in Address to English-Speaking Media, Rejects Starvation Claims JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday outlined his government’s strategy for ending the war in Gaza, pledging to complete Hamas’s defeat, dismissing accusations that Israel is starving civilians, and […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you The Curious Case of Argentina’s Jewish-Run Yoga School Argentina is one country this author has watched like a hawk, especially as global Jewish networks continue to reap the benefits of having Javier Milei as their loyal shabbos […]
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Posted on August 6, 2025 by winter oak by W.D. James Socrates had a demon. Or, to avoid misunderstanding, he had a daemon, to stick to the Greek which does not have the negative connotation that the English word derived from it carries. Socrates and the divine In […]
Posted on August 1, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) In recent essays I have been looking at the divine magic of this world and the ways in which this has always been recognised and celebrated in traditional human cultures. In these […]
Posted on August 4, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Max Weber, the subject of my last essay, was not alone in suspecting that certain religious beliefs – or the lack of them – had played a key role in shaping modern […]
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Posted on July 30, 2025 by winter oak by W.D. James From what we have learned of Socrates thus far in this essay series, it might sound odd to speak of ‘Socrates’ doctrine.’ After all, he had claimed that any wisdom he possessed was knowing that he did […]
This place is awash with history, flooded, in fact Niccolo Soldo Jul 30, 2025 Share A few years ago, I decided to switch up where I would live in Croatia for the sake of change and comparison, and I ended up spending a year down in Dubrovnik at […]
Podcast with Jasun Horsley Luke Dodson Jul 26, 2025 Children of Job: Where Faith & Hubris Meet Jobcast # 76: Mythic Amplifications Discussing comparative mythology with Luke Dodson, anthroposophical clairvoyance & psychic self-examinations, the terrible and the lawful sovereign, Mithra, Baldur, Loki, and Christ, ontological entities vs. eggregores, […]
Reading | Cognitive Science Matt Colborn, PhD | 2025-06-27 Dr. Colborn argues that, perhaps surprisingly, the worldview of the technology elite is shifting from fundamentalist materialism to a form of apocalypticism that echoes fundamentalist Christianity. This shift in belief is, according to Colborn, not based on an honest […]
Posted on July 25, 2025 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Our ancestors enjoyed not just a very different way of living to ours today but also a very different way of being. Morris Berman writes of the supposedly “primitive” human being: “He […]
The theologian and bestselling author shares the revolutionary story of a first-century woman named Thecla—and the buried history of women’s spiritual power in the early Church | Listen 46 minutes Kirsten Powers Jul 23 READ IN APP Theologian and author Meggan Watterson In today’s episode, I share a […]
At the 2025 Center for Political Innovation Great Unity Convention, an award was presented to Rev. Miilhan Stephens, pastor of Boston Family Church, for his work supporting Peaceful Reunificaiton of the Korean Peninsula and CPI’s PeaceMAGA outreach during the 2024 election. Join the Center for Political Innovation: https://www.cpiusa.org/join-cpi
This episode is all about the spook of romance. I offer an egoist critique of course so if you don’t like that please feel free to do something other than waste your time getting mad at me for not sharing your opinions. 0:01 Introduction 3:31 Spook of the […]
William Blake, John Milton (1800–1803); Manchester Art Gallery In the Review’s June 9, 1966, issue, the literary critic Christopher Ricks wrote that John Milton is “the most controversial poet in English.” Since that early issue, considerations of Milton have found their way into our pages like a serpent into a garden, […]
By Philip Chrysopoulos July 18, 2025 “Diogenes Sitting in His Tub,” by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1860). Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes the Cynic (also known as Diogenes of Sinope) could have been the first anarchist, or the first absurdist, or the first satirist, or the […]
By Dimitrios Aristopoulos July 17, 2025 The Druze faith incorporates elements of Greek philosophy, particularly Pythagoreanism and Platonic thought, into their mystical beliefs and practices. Image: Druze dignitaries celebrating the Nebi Shueib festival at the tomb of the prophet in Hittim. Credit: Flickr / Government Press Office CC […]
Trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser New in Telos Insights The Place of Christianity in the West: On Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Theologico-Political Conversion by Anna Sutter The following article is a slightly revised translation of an essay originally published in German as “Konversion zwecks Konservation: Eine […]
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