Blog Stats
- 2,651,283 readers since June 2008
Recent Comments
- Terry on Fraudulant Attribution: Gilgamesh, Moses, the Apostle Matthew—and Ancient Authorship
- Anonymous on Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Anonymous on Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Yes She Was on Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Bret Stephens and Andrew Sullivan: A Not-So-Dynamic Duo ~ Full Magazine on Andrew Sullivan Apologizes for Comparing Larry Summers to a Christ Killing Jewish Moneylender in a Hieronymus Bosch Painting
- Aaron Siering on God Shadowed By Emptiness: Thomas Aquinas vs. The Buddhist Nagarjuna
- Aaron Siering on God Shadowed By Emptiness: Thomas Aquinas vs. The Buddhist Nagarjuna
- Anonymous on Did You Know That Sartre, in the Name of World Revolution, Would Not Have Prevented the Burning of the Mona Lisa? Neither Did I!
- Ethelred Hardrede on When Experts Collide: Jerry Coyne verses James Shapiro
- James Handelin on Adam Smith and Capitalism for Beginners
- Anonymous on How Crazy is Dr. David Jeremiah?
- Analysis of the Primeval History in Genesis – Infinite Ocean on “Male and Female Created He Them!”: Was Adam a Hermaphrodite? And Does That Explain How Eve Could Be Taken from Adam’s Body?
- HarlowGold on This Hans Holbein Painting of Christ after Crucifixion Sparked Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Imagination
- Anonymous on Michael Jackson Pedophile Reality Check: Is It Mean to Suspect that Michael Jackson Might Have Been a Pedophile?
- eileen on Michael Jackson Pedophile Reality Check: Is It Mean to Suspect that Michael Jackson Might Have Been a Pedophile?
Top Posts
- Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Matthew 27:51-53: The Bible's "Night of the Living Dead" Passage
- What, Exactly, Is Wrong With Bestiality?
- How Crazy is Dr. David Jeremiah?
- Adam Smith and Capitalism for Beginners
- What is a Human, Really? Thinking about Definition via Aristotle
- What is an Etiological Narrative? And Might Confusion About Its Nature Be the Source for Fundamentalist Religion?
- This Hans Holbein Painting of Christ after Crucifixion Sparked Fyodor Dostoevsky's Imagination
- Follow the Entropy: A Pretty Good Argument for God's Existence
- Best Explanation, Ad Hoc Explanation, and Occam's Razor
-
Recent Posts
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.10: Emerson’s “Circles”
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.9: Imitation And Emulation With An Eye On Competition
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.8: Selection And Editing
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.7: Audience And Rhetorical Strategy
- A Mini-Course In Rhetoric For Writers. Concept 2.6: Moving From First Sentence To Thesis
Recent Haiku Tweets
- AOC says it well. twitter.com/CNN/status/108… 2 months ago
- nytimes.com/interactive/20… 8 months ago
- RT @mrchan: So much has changed in America, and yet so much hasn't https://t.co/x2mthUr4Kc 10 months ago
- Perfect. twitter.com/newsundayheral… 2 years ago
- RT @goldenglobes: At tonight's #GoldenGlobes we honor Hollywood legend Meryl Streep with the prestigious Cecil B. Demille Award. https://t.… 2 years ago
Tag Archives: fascism
A Europeanized Republican Party: Is Donald Trump America’s Jean Le Pen?
The below quote startled me. It comes from a conservative writer who locates the signal in the noise as to what Donald Trump really means for American politics: the Europeanization of the Republican Party. In other words, Trump is riding … Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood and Religious Fascism
This is being reported by the AP today: Mustafa Hegazy, a political adviser to interim President Adly Mansour, told a press conference Saturday that […] Egyptians took to the streets on June 30 – the day that led to Morsi’s ouster … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alexandria, atheism, Christianity, Egypt, fascism, fundamentalism, Islam, religion, Thomas Jefferson
9 Comments
The New Hitler Youth of India
With India’s rise on the global stage, it would seem valuable to know the attitudes of its most elite educated teenagers, and Dilip D’Sousa at the Daily Beast reports that a not inconsiderable number of them harbor fascist sentiments: My … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged antisemitism, fascism, herderianism, Hinduism, Hitler, India, Islam, nationalism, Pakistan, the future
7 Comments
The Neoconservative War on Nihilism (and Thomas Jefferson)
Harper’s website has a fascinating interview with C. Bradley Thompson on neoconservatism and his new book (with Yaron Brook) about it. Although, in the interview, the phrase “Herderian nationalism” is not used for neoconservatism by Thompson, he strongly implies that this is exactly what … Continue reading
Chris Hedges on the Tea Birchers
In a recent TruthDig essay, Chris Hedges (I think accurately) sizes up the Herderian Tea Party movement in America, and where it is moving us: There is a yearning by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged America, Chris Hedges, conservatism, fascism, herderians, Jesus, Johann Gottfried Herder, John Macarthur, Sarah Palin, tea birchers, tea partiers
1 Comment
Maureen Dowd on Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Anti-Muslim Crowds
In a recent New York Times column, Maureen Dowd tracks some of the Herderite stupidity swirling around the so-called ground zero mosque: The dispute over the Islamic center has tripped some deep national lunacy. The unbottled anger and suspicion concerning ground zero show … Continue reading
Glenn Beck says that the Jews killed Jesus
Isn’t Glenn Beck a lovely human being? Here what he said on Tuesday about Jesus and the Jews: Jesus conquered death. He wasn’t victimized. He chose to give his life. He did have a choice. If he was a victim, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged antisemitism, apologetics, Easter, fascism, glenn beck, Jesus, John Macarthur, rush limbaugh, the Holocaust
2 Comments
Nietzsche’s checkmate: does atheism lead to totalitarianism?
A.C. Grayling, an atheist author that I tend to otherwise love, calls the idea that atheism gave birth to communism and fascism a theist “canard.” But, as an agnostic who has been doing a good deal of Nietzsche reading lately, I’m not … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged a.c. grayling, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Charles Darwin, Communism, contingency, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, postmodernism, totalitarianism
15 Comments
Muslim assaults cartoonist on a university campus
But don’t call his violence Islamofascism. This reported today by AP: A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog said Tuesday he was assaulted while giving a lecture at a university. Lars Vilks told The Associated Press a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged atheism, atheist, Christopher Hitchens, fascism, free speech, God, Islam, islamofascism, lars vilks, Mohammad, Muslims, Voltaire
12 Comments
Rush Limbaugh and a Disturbing New Authoritarian Phenomenon: The Brick Throwing “Patriot”
Talk about pushing the Overton Window to the right. Yesterday Rush Limbaugh (who calls himself a “Christian”) equated Barack Obama with Hitler and put up this rather uncharitable battle cry against Democrats: We need to defeat these bastards. We need to wipe … Continue reading
21st Century Russia: Early 1930s Germany Redux?
A sobering documentary on 21st century Russia. Worth watching in full. We live in dangerous times. Here’s part 1 of 6:
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged capitalism, cossacks, death, economics, fascism, global economy, life, Putin, Russia, totalitarianism
7 Comments
What Did Friedrich Nietzsche Take from Charles Darwin?
Answer: A lot. Most specifically, contingency (chance), and the implications of contingency upon meaning. Prior to Charles Darwin there were a lot of 19th century people who believed that evolution must have occurred in some form, but they thought about … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged atheism, atheist, Christianity, Darwin, evolution, fascism, God, Jesus, morality, Nietzsche, philosophy, thomas nagel
21 Comments
Beck Zedong!
Glenn Beck’s got a one hundred year plan (oh, shit): “We need to start thinking like the Chinese.” In other words, Glenn Beck thinks that focused, insurgent, belligerent, fanatically committed mass movement Maoism—with its disciplined cell groups, ideological purity, and relentless propaganda—is the right … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Communism, conservatism, fascism, glenn beck, mao zedong, National Review, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, tea parties, teabaggers, totalitarianism
1 Comment
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The View from Anne Frank’s Window (July 22, 1941)
Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House recently put on YouTube rare footage of Anne Frank leaning out of a window to get a look at a newly married couple in her neighborhood: And here’s Anne Frank, at a younger age, in a group photo: … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged anne frank, bergen-belsen, death, experience, fascism, Hitler, innocence, Judaism, life, the Holocaust, windows
19 Comments
