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New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”

I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory. Read More ›
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Photo: Herbert Spencer, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›
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Image: Screen shot from That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science.

The Main Argument of The Abolition of Man

Lewis foresees a class of men called “the Conditioners.” The Conditioners have “seen through” all attempts to ground behaviour in any ultimate truth. Read More ›
C. S. Lewis

That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›
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“Morality Pills”: Ethicist Calls for Drugs to Solve COVID Non-Compliance

Whatever one thinks about government mandates relating to the coronavirus, Parker Crutchfield’s “solution” is worse than the problem. Read More ›
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Egnor Imagines: Professor Terminated; Replaced by Bonobo

“The search committee interviewed several apes, three mules, and a tomato plant.” Read More ›
Jordan-Peterson

Jordan Peterson — Do the Stitches Hold?

The modern heretic and YouTube sensation seeks to meld clinical and evolutionary psychology with Jung, Nietzsche, and the Bible. Read More ›
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Descartes’s Blunder

What is it that we are most sure of? It’s a fundamental question, the object of philosophical analysis for millennia. Read More ›
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The Religion of the Alt-Right

Some leading figures of the alt-right, such as Richard Spencer, are sympathetic with paganism. Read More ›

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