(Narrative summary of Rick Moran’s October 10 PJ Media essay) PJ Media: Is It Possible to ‘Re-Civilize’ Society? The assassination of Charlie Kirk laid bare the fact that our society has become unmoored from rationality and has descended into a state of “dis-civilization.” Our cities can no longer claim to be centers of culture. If…
Tucker Carlson’s Worldview: The Populist, the Pastor, and the Unanswered Questions
I asked Google Gemini to help me understand Tucker Carlson, and it can be a bit confusing to sort out his viewpoints, especially if you’re coming to the topic without much background. I prompted the bot to summarize Carlson’s opinions and viewpoints from the perspective of someone who has no prior knowledge of the topic….
Peter Thiel’s Apocalypse: Why a Silicon Valley Billionaire Sees AI Critics as Servants of the Antichrist
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, investor, and author best known for co-founding PayPal and Palantir Technologies. A Stanford-educated lawyer turned venture capitalist, he was the first outside investor in Facebook and co-founded Founders Fund, backing companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. Thiel is a leading figure in Silicon Valley, known for his contrarian views on…
Discerning the Path of Wisdom: Understanding the Biblical “Fool”
Proverbs 26:1-11 Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. 2 Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. 4 Answer not a…
The Other Side of Paradise: What George Clooney Isn’t Telling You About Raising Children in France
George Clooney says he is now based in France and his children have a “much better life” being raised there than Los Angeles. “They have a much better life. I was worried about raising our kids in LA, in the culture of Hollywood. I felt like they were never going to get a… pic.twitter.com/uFqJjlwFw8 —…
The View’s Intellectual Arrogance: A Reality Check
Literally! On The View, Hasan Minhaj says all of Trump’s supporters (over half the country) are “dumb C-average students” who “need a 30-minute head start on the test.” Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin just sits there and laughs, no push back at all. Whoopi says the entire cast thinks… pic.twitter.com/cHgXSVFecw — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October…
Historical Critique of Joseph Smith’s Plural Marriage Justifications
Modern LDS apologists employ several strategies to address Joseph Smith’s plural marriages, which included approximately 30-40 women: Regarding Helen Mar Kimball (age 14): They emphasize this was within legal marriage age for the era (though still controversial even then) Some argue it may have been a “dynastic sealing” rather than a sexual relationship, citing Helen’s…
The Warrior Who Believed He’d Lived Before: George S. Patton’s Strange Journey
There’s a moment in Sicily, summer of 1943, that captures everything about George S. Patton in a single scene. Standing on ancient ground where armies had clashed for millennia, he turned to his staff officers and made a pronouncement that sent eyebrows skyward: he had fought on this very field before—not in some previous campaign,…
The Two Swords of Christ: Five Centuries of War between Islam and the Warrior Monks of Christendom
The Two Swords of Christ: Five Centuries of War between Islam and the Warrior Monks of Christendom by Raymond Ibrahim Summary – Main Argument The book chronicles the conflict between Islam and the West through the history of the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller, warrior-monk orders that Ibrahim presents as defenders of Christian civilization against…
The Guardians Who Slept: How the UN Security Council’s Cowardice Betrayed Israel and Empowered Terror
Two Years Ago: A Fateful Waste of Opportunity On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out a brutal, large-scale attack on southern Israel, killing civilians, taking hostages, launching rockets — acts that under almost any international standard amount to terrorism, war crimes, or at least atrocities. The international community, especially the Security Council, had both the…