A flowerpot of ashes from the fire of liberty…tokens of hope and truth preserved for future generations who dare to believe that there was once something else.

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A few random posts…

  • Dangers to orthodox Christianity
    Dangers to orthodox Christianity include opposition from without and heresy from within. Both are principally (though not exclusively) from the political left.
  • Recapitulation (Anti-postmodernism)
    A few modest suggestions for inoculation of USA version 2 from the dangers of postmodernism discussed in the previous post.
  • “Implication Vector” in historical narrative
    Historical reasoning needs to deal with the direction of the "implication vector" - does a fact about America in 1776 tell us more about 1776 or about America?
  • Virtue-signaling
    A discussion of the relationship between scientism and virtue-signaling (specifically, signaling membership in the elite) in public life
  • Fundamentals (Anti-Marxism)
    What's wrong with Marxism anyway? Defining our terms, and examining when it is limited, when it is wrong, and when it is evil.