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Nietzsche’s Eternal Return in America November 22, 2024
One day in the early 2000s, a goth teenager by the name of Sohrab Ahmari was perusing the shelves of a Salt Lake City bookstore when his gaze landed upon Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. For a misfit atheist adolescent looking for meanin...
Jordan Peterson’s Prophecies November 20, 2024
At the end of We Who Wrestle with God, Jordan Peterson tells the reader that the book is a “response to the brilliant Nietzsche”. For the Canadian psychologist and leading prophet of the counter-cultural right, the woke movements on which he wages w...
The Beginning and End of Postmodern America August 20, 2024
Do we live in normal times, times of bounded contestation and turmoil, of chaos and disarray that still operate within the paradigm of normal American politics? Or is that paradigm collapsing, from atrophy or from antipathy? For conservatives living ...
On Nietzsche and Our Crisis of Masculinity August 19, 2024
As is often the case, I first read Friedrich Nietzsche as a teenage boy. In the fall of 2001, at the age of fifteen, I learned that I was to have brain surgery, and I needed reading material for the recovery period. In preparation for a month or so s...
Wokeness and the “Sick Animal” August 12, 2024
My X feed has recently been flooded with parodies of the “White Women for Kamala” Zoom call, where a kindergarten teacher turned social media influencer “gentle parented” a group of white women, explaining that “our BIPOC sisters have tapped us in as...
Bronze Age Menace April 22, 2024
At 15, I discovered Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil in a used-book store. Nietzsche glared in angry profile on the cover. His gaze drilled into the surface of reality, and a walrus-like mustache covered his mouth. The publisher’s blurb on ...
The Great American Speculator April 11, 2024
Emerson is a difficult subject for a biography; on one hand, a biographer must compete with his journals. And because some of Emerson's most famous and important essays were in the mode of biography–the strange and wonderful “Representative Men” seri...
What’s Wrong With the Intellectuals? February 13, 2024
Nietzsche’s meaning here is open-ended regarding the intellectual as human being. To make things simpler is a good, even necessary, activity in human life. In this sense, we are all thinkers. In our daily lives, we turn the endlessly varied and nearl...
