The Rise of Sophia | Part 1 “Does not wisdom call out?” — Proverbs 8:1 Before the first star burned, before the first human drew breath, before history began, Wisdom was there. She was beside the Creator as mountains rose, seas found their shores, and life unfolded from possibility into…
How the Left and Right Are Trapped in the Same Mental Loop “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago American politics has become bipolar. Both poles organize themselves…
Subversive Wisdom for an Age of Collapse “The great bulk of political history has been written from the standpoint of the state…The infrapolitics of the weak are the invisible, everyday forms of resistance.” —James C. Scott The past week’s headlines have been impossible to ignore. The narrative driving the global…
Resolving the All-Male Trinity “One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.” — Maria Prophetissa I grew up praying to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three persons, one God. All male. I didn’t question it as a teen. But somewhere…
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” — Heraclitus Most religions acknowledge humanity’s shortcomings and expect something in the future: a reset, a restoration, a judge, a new age, or an event or place that makes this life worthwhile. But only one central figure in…
The Rise of “Professor Jiang” and the Art of Attentional Capture “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” — Jim Morrison, The Doors (1969) We want to believe media simply informs. It doesn’t. Government and media share a special relationship and the same goal: steering – guiding behavior, shaping choices,…
Untold History of the U.S.–Israel Relationship “We are the nation of the chosen people. And we must always remember that we are the ones who have been chosen to lead the world.” — Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative thinker, 1980 The United States and Israel call their alliance a “special relationship”…
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.”—Heraclitus I’ve spent years waking at 3AM with the same burning question: Why does everything turn into its opposite? I’ve come to call it the Law of Reversal. For this essay, I’m using the word flip. But here’s what…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part Three “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Matthew 18:3 In Part I, we met the Builder—not a single person but an archetype, a pattern of thinking that has shaped Western…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part Two “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens.” — Genesis 11:4 Every tower begins with a promise. People surrender tangible wealth—time, money, labor, health—in exchange for the promise of something greater. This essay traces one of…
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