From Back When the Way Forward...

was still the Way Forward.

Cato the Younger

Read his story here.

Americana

From back when the Way Forward was still the Way Forward...

The (In)Security State

The only kind of state where one can find security is a state of mind...

Actual insecurity increases in direct proportion to increases in government surveillance.

Upon discovering that you had been stalked, would you be convinced by the government's argument that it was for your own good?

Big Brother is watching you!

Lucidity

Albert Schweitzer kicked off the modern search for the "historical Jesus" a century ago, and the search continues to this day. Scholars have complicated the quest by trying to "find" the historical Paul and James, etc., but, in every case, they are hoping to reinvent Christianity in a way that will allow them to embrace its best ideals and jettison the many facets of the religion that insult the post-Enlightenment intelligence.

We wish them luck.

Hypocrisy

In the news...

Veronika String Quartet

Sublimity...

Gospel Music

The reason that Christianity was invented.

Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?

W. E. B. Du Bois's Niagara Movement

Meeting in Harper's Ferry, W.Va., predecessor to the NAACP. Du Bois is in the front row, seated 5th from the right.

The Pogues

My Own Private Mt. Rushmore Amended

The monument, as imagined, must include, at minimum, the visage of W. E. B. Du Bois.

On The Road With Jack and Neal

Avoid It If You Can...

A Chris Hedges Classic

The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair | Alternet

From the Days of Innocence

Released in August of 1975:

Rock-n-Roll anthems for pre-Reagan America...back before Oceania was at war with...whomever...

The American Religious Imagination

Circa 2015 CE:

The King

Aubade by Philip Larkin

 

Aubade by Philip Larkin : The Poetry Foundation

The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity

From Sage:

Chrysippus


To Friend of God:

Marabout

Noam Chomsky on Ronald Reagan

The Trouble With Political Philosophy

The trouble with political philosophy is that it assumes that people actually think about politics philosophically. Would that they did; they might recognize their own confusions. Instead, they just rally around their inherited totems.

The world-historical train-wreck that is unfolding before our eyes results from the capture of what Michael Sandel termed America's "procedural republic" (see his Democracy's Discontent) by militant Christianity.

No political philosopher is talking about that, unless we wish to consider Noam Chomsky a political philosopher.