Even in a fake world, it's hard to miss the parallels between the atrocities of Game of Thrones and the decisions real humans are capable of in war.

Doctor Beach is back (!), and here he presents us with a seasonally appropriate report on leprechaun madness from around the turn of the 20th century. Seems everyone wanted that pot of gold, and apparently rainbows were in short supply because one could be arrested and sent to a workhouse for simply being tiny and […]

Videos show protesters bravely defying the country’s Islamic law, which requires women to cover their hair in public, as they walk through cities like the capital Tehran and Shiraz.

Why do some ghosts come back, but not others? Are some more equal than others? Daniel Defoe argued how there should be more ghosts but there aren’t, therefore ghosts don’t exist. From the other side of the aisle EsoterX respectfully disagrees, recommending bureaucratic reform to make our world even spookier. Not everyone comes back to […]

In an Easter message to Christians, the Prime Minister insisted the Coalition had spent five years ‘trying to lift people up’ by making work pay and encouraging responsibility.

Franklin Graham, head of international relief organization Samaritan's Purse, visits one of the organization's cholera treatment centers in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, January 8, 2011.

This prophecy update covers the decline of civilization in terms of morality. It goes into why an economic collapse is required to bring in Mark Of The Beast, and speaks about Netanyahus election victory and how the Obama …

This economic argument, fought at the household level, reminds me of the post Financial Crisis arguments we had for the foreclosure pandemic and the conversation being had in Europe right now over Greece's sovereign debt. People who should know …

Johnny Brennan's “Imagination, Prophecy, and Morality: The Relevance and Limits of Spinoza's Theory of Political Myth” appears in Telos 169 (Winter 2014). Read the full version online at the Telos Online website, …

As a teenager, I constantly read books about the Holocaust and Israel, itself a teenager at the time. My heroes were Jewish heroes. They nourished my notions of idealism and courage in the face of raw power. I dreamed of joining a kibbutz. During the …