We now come to our third installment on wealth, as we continue to discuss Proverbs, money, and you. The first and second installments are here and here, and we are now on to the third, which is a consideration ...
A Hole Under His Nose
Pete Hegseth, Me, and Meeting with Important Jews
Introduction: https://twitter.com/benzornes/status/1925661172264530368 So we are in the middle of a flurry of news stories about our doings here in Moscow. For example, Vox just dropped a story ...
Testing Out an AI Voice
If you have been a regular around here, you probably know that I think some aspects of AI are stupendous and wonderful, all part of fulfilling the cultural mandate, and that other aspects of it are creepy and demented, and that a third category of AI is just lame. We are all still working out …
Just War, the Houthis, and the Modern Landscape of War
Introduction: The Christian faith rose to preeminence in the Roman world in the face of unrelenting hostility from the state—three centuries of that hostility. Unlike other faiths, which came to dominate their respective regions with the help of the sword, the Christian faith didn’t have that kind of help. It is consequently easy for Christians …
Book of the Month/May 2025
It is not enough for us to be against woke, or DEI, or social justice, or whatever new term our lizard overlords have decided to foist upon us. We must be hostile to all such verbal iterations, of course, but we must fight, as Chesterton put it, not simply because we hate what is in …
Some Good Basic Questions Stirred Up by Rufo and Goldberg
Update and correction: I am informed by a reader that James Lindsay has recently repudiated atheism, and is now considering himself an agnostic. That affects my second paragraph, so please factor that ...
Christ as Riven
Good Friday 2025: Pontius Pilate, a Roman governor and political figure, was no doubt acquainted with palace intrigues, court machinations, and the striving ache that suffuses all of it. It is ...
Chaplains for Pirate Ships
Well, to be honest, they aren’t exactly pirate ships, which would not be very Christian. They are more like privateers, operating with letters of marque and reprisal. But let us not get distracted from the main point. Greyfriars Hall has been operating for some twenty plus years now, graduating its first alum in 2004—which meant …
Book of the Month/April 2025
If you are a word geek, as I am afraid that I am, you like to read books written by word geeks. This happened to me again recently, and I thought I should tell you about it. This book is by John McWhorter, a professor at Columbia, and is called Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue. As …
Sacralism and Human Governments
Introduction: We see in Scripture that there are three distinct governments among men that were established by God directly. The first was the government of the family when God presented our first ...