The Burning Archive Podcast #8 – Cultural Decay and the meaning of the Burning Archive
I have posted episode 8 of The Burning Archive Podcast – Cultural Decay and the meaning of…
The persistence of the Mahabharata
One year ago I was about to fly to Bali, as it turned out in the…
Sound and fury told by the American cultural “elite”
There are few funny stories to emerge from American politics over the last two months, especially…
America’s fate: civil war, fragmentation or collapse?
Today after the distressing events and death in the Capitol building of Washington DC that interrupted…
Anomie Today and Cultural Decay
“The former gods are growing old or dying, and others have not been born…. A day…
America’s fate: civil war, fragmentation or collapse?
There is increasing talk of a looming civil war in America. There has even been a…
The failure of institutions in the pandemic crisis
Yuval Levin argues that the institutions of contemporary society, primarily America in his account, have become…
The great seclusion
Michel Foucault’s history of madness describes the decrees of 1656 that confined the insane, the unemployed,…
Degeneration
“A generation after the commissars left the scene, positive freedom is more difficult to attain, and…
The persistence of the Mahabharata
My trip to Bali – now over, since I am returned from the tropical paradise to…