To celebrate our 25th anniversary, the Nexus Symposium 2019, ‘The Magic Mountain Revisited’, revolved around the themes and music from The Magic Mountain. As if Settembrini and Naptha were alive today, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Aleksandr Dugin debated on stage as defenders of the Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment.
Aleksandr Dugin, Nelofer Pazira, Leon Wiesltier, Michael Zantovsky and others on freedom, liberalism and democracy.
@Zara Kay is an outspoken activist against the abuses of Religion, especially Islam. She talks about her experience with Islam and coming out. She also discusses her arrest for Blasphemy against Muhammad and Allah.
By Damon Linker, The Week Nothing will open a pundit to anger and abuse like pointing out that both sides in our politics have a point — or a specific blind spot. That’s especially true now, in our era of political polarization, and when one of our two […]
David Fideler, writer, philosopher, and author of “Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living,” joins David to talk Stoicism, philosophy, and more.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s been just over two weeks since the latest act of Islamic terrorism on US soil and the powers at be in the Fourth Estate already have it all figured out. Hell, it took those brilliant motherfuckers less […]
By Personality Hacker In this episode Joel and Antonia talk about personality types and religion and unpack which personalities are more likely to leave or stay with religion. In this podcast you’ll find: What’s the relationship between personality types and joining religious movements? Are there some that aren’t […]
By Jan Olof Bengtsson History of European Ideas 26 (2000) 127–142 Book reviews Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the origins of radical social theory Warren Breckman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; 1999, 335pp.The well-known theme in modernist and postmodernist literature of the dissolution of what was perceived by radicals […]
By Caitlin Johnstone People don’t generally leave abusive relationships in egoically satisfying, Hollywood-friendly ways. I point this out because those of us who are watching the people’s abusive relationship with predatory power structures and hoping for revolutionary change often tend to envision the status quo ending in an […]
By Werner Sombart , Translated by Mordecai Epstein 2015 Reprint of Original 1913 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Werner Sombart (1863 -1941) was a German economist and sociologist and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first […]
Ah, this guy was HILARIOUS when he got called out for the “Camel through the eye of the needle” quote about his money.
By Sam Sweeney National Review Recently I was in the city of Hassakeh, Syria, sitting and making small talk with two Syrians, one Kurdish and the other Syriac Christian. The Christian said he would like to invite me to his house but, because he lives in the government-controlled […]
Krystal and Saagar respond to Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s angry response to a constituent who pressed him on comments he made about Jesus on a podcast that contrast from previous stances
By Matthew Vadum, Epoch Times Allowing national flags and flags about historic events, causes, and organizations while refusing to raise a Christian flag outside a city hall is an unconstitutional example of government censorship, a seemingly sympathetic Supreme Court was told on Jan. 18. The hearing came as […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Humanity’s collective awakening will unfold in ways that nobody is anticipating, for the same reasons an individual’s awakening always unfolds in ways they can’t anticipate. An individual’s journey into greater consciousness is rife with plot twists and M. Night Shyamalan surprise endings, because it is […]
Sounds reasonable enough. If some Internet platforms don’t want you, start your own. By Jack Jenkins Religion News This article is the second in a series on Christian nationalism supported by the Pulitzer Center. (RNS) — It was late September when Andrew Torba, founder of the social media […]
The same thing is now happening in Latin America that happened in North America previously. As mainstream US churches started to become largely social institutions oriented towards secular issues, people who wanted “real religion” started moving toward evangelical and fundamentalist churches. Now the same process is being played […]
Progressotards never seem to learn that compulsory secularization is precisely how you fuel religious extremism. By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz A new law, put in place on Saturday in Canada, is causing concern that it may criminalize the dissemination of the Bible. The concern is that Bill C-4, the […]
In the battle between left and right, we need both Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, both of whom are ironically recognized as proto-anarchists by the anarchist historian Peter Marshall. By Yuval Levin, The Independent Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine were late-eighteenth-century political thinkers and prolific writers who disagreed […]
David Patrick Harry is joined by Uberboyo to debate what is more unconscious, Orthodox Christianity or the philosophy of Nietzsche? Promise to be a good one. Make sure to check it out and let me know what you think. God bless Intro Music Follow b-dibe’s Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/b-dibe Superchat […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss how religion might impact Americans’ reactions to proof of extraterrestrial life.
By Jamie Lee Curtis Taete, The Guardian Fifty years after a golden age for the spiritual groups, many have disbanded. But pockets remain throughout the state Half a century ago, you could barely walk down the street in California without tripping over some kind of fringe spiritual sect […]
From 2018. Today, the USA is basically the European Union of North America, a currency union and trade zone presided over by transnational elites who identify with their class and other international elites more than with “America” either as an ideal or entity. Meanwhile, the USA is moving […]
Proto-Protestant https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/12/09/ocasio-cortez-slams-republicans-over-gun-toting-christmas-photos/ What a sad moment. Ocasio-Cortez the much vilified Democratic representative from New York and member of the hated ‘Squad’ has spoken truth – and a truth that puts Evangelicals to shame. The Right has made too much of Ocasio-Cortez. Some commentators suggest that ‘The Squad’ in […]
Meaningness Francis Schaeffer, hippie guru and architect of the modern Religious Right “The counterculture” generally refers to the youth movement of the 1960s-70s: rock and roll, anti-war protests, psychedelics, the New Left, hippies, and the sexual revolution. While puzzling out how these elements cohered—to understand the counterculture functionally […]
By Rebecca Jennings Vox Algorithms are surfacing content that combines Christian ideas like prosperity gospel with New Age and non-Western spirituality — along with some conspiracy theories. “It just doesn’t sit right with me,” begins a TikTok by a user named Evelyn Juarez. It’s a breakdown of the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The following is the Gospel according to Nicky Reid, a ranting, genderfuck, lesbian, Christopagan anarchist from the 21st Century. Like all religious propaganda, it is loosely based on a hot mess of new age folklore, revisionist history, pharmacological […]
This book looks to be an interesting take on Christian Anarchist thought. From Eschatology to Orthodox Political Theology and Back Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of “anarchism” both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological […]
By Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Story Highlights In 2020, 47% of U.S. adults belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque Down more than 20 points from turn of the century Change primarily due to rise in Americans with no religious preference WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ membership in houses […]
By Monique Beals, The Hill A Pew Research Center poll published Tuesday indicates that the number of people in the U.S. who describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated increased by 6 points in the last five years and 10 points in the last decade. When asked about their religious identity, […]
Father Steven Allen(Orthodox Truth) Recently, while in Serbia to visit family, I had the pleasure of giving two lectures to an association of young people dedicated to Orthodoxy, monarchism, and Serbian patriotism. As are we here in the States, they also are facing the prospect of persecution by […]
By Joel Mathis The Week The decline of American Christianity is continuing apace. The Pew Research Center reports today that the number of self-identified Christians has declined by 12 percentage points since 2012, while religious “nones” have grown by 10 points during that time. (Other surveys have shown […]
Telos Press In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, David Pan talks with Linus Recht about his article “After Desire: Foucault’s Ethical Critique of Psychological Man and the Foucauldian Ethos of the Internet Age,” from Telos 196 (Fall 2021). An excerpt of the article appears below. In their […]
It has been argued by myself and others that the USA has more in common with Latin America than Europe, with the major exception being that the US has traditionally had a larger middle class. While the US ruling class increasingly resembles that of the European Union, a […]
By David Pan Telos The dichotomy of thinking versus doing seems to arise out of our own sense of the difference between our minds and our bodies. On the one hand, the gap between mind and body is the basis of the perspective with which the mind can […]
By Michael Warren David, Spectator World Meet the new generation of social conservatives, not necessarily religious but trying to be good men. Every day around noon, a white pickup truck comes barreling down my street. It’s one of those big-boy toys: jacked-up suspension, aftermarket muffler, turbo…the works. It’s […]
By Andrew Isker, Gab.Com A little over a month ago, Tucker Carlson presented a monologue on his show which set off conservative intelligentsia into a fit of impotent rage. The National Review types, who, to a man are as much in touch with the plight of the working […]
By Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish He’s written a history of the nuns and priests who defied the Catholic leadership to help gay victims of the AIDS crisis. Many of you will recall the horrendous way in which the Catholic Church hierarchy responded to the AIDS crisis. Many […]
By Peter Wehner, The Atlantic The election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong. A trio of elders didn’t receive 75 percent of the vote, the threshold […]
A new episode of CBSN Originals’ Reverb series reveals that as Christian nationalism attracts followers, traditional pastors fear for their faith and the country. Evangelical Christians are a powerful political force, but an extreme faction has divided the community. In the half-hour documentary, An (Un)Civil War: The Evangelical […]
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian A Guardian investigation has revealed that a controversial church whose leader has openly expressed the ambition of creating a “theocracy” in America has accumulated significant influence in the city of Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has a stated goal to “make Moscow a Christian […]
By SARAH RANKIN The Associated Press A former spokesperson for Liberty University is suing the evangelical school in Lynchburg after being fired, alleging in a lawsuit filed Monday that his termination came in retaliation for voicing concerns that sexual misconduct accusations were mishandled. Scott Lamb, a vice president-level […]
Most libertarians defend their politics with a simple starting point: self-ownership and the non-aggression principle. Christians have often raised issues with the concept of self-ownership, since as the Creator of the universe, isn’t God really the owner of everything? Todd Lewis, a recent guest on the podcast, joins […]
This is an excerpt of my conversation with Ryan Holiday. In this miniclip Ryan and I take a deeper look into stoicism.
By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque packed with worshippers attending Friday prayers in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 37 people and wounding more than 70, according to a hospital official and a witness. There was no […]
By Matthew Sitman, The Signal The election and inauguration of the second-ever Catholic president of the United States were notably unoccupied with his Catholicism. In a diverse Democratic primary field—up against candidates who were women, non-white, Jewish, or openly gay—Joe Biden’s Catholic identity was essentially a non-issue. Yet […]
By Andrew Sullivan The Christian socialist is a powerful foe of tribalism. Cornel West’s academic career is long and storied, having taught religion, philosophy, and African-American studies at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and Union Theological Seminary, where he recently returned. He has written or contributed to more than 20 […]
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Catholic Church expert John L. Allen Jr. discuss shocking findings that French priests and other clergy have sexually abused over 200,000 children since 1950.
“The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.” –Chomsky
“Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, political parties, nations, epochs, it is the rule.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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