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The argument I am making about modernity’s intimate connection to nihilism and irrationality is in many respects a classic conservative argument.  Yet conservatism is as infected with the virus of nihilism as the strains of modernity it perceptively criticizes.  (This is part of a project of mine investigating how a Pagan view of reality changes…

UPDATE below. Robert Mathiesen makes a very important point in his comment on my Fundamentalism and Irrationality post, one this blog might have failed to emphasize adequately because it’s complex and because the ‘Christian’ Right is louder right now.  This mini-essay is an attempt to do the subject justice.  The decline of confidence in reason…

I just came across a fascinating anecdote that might shed light on something that has long fascinated and horrified me about my country.  At a recent town-hall meeting in Iowa a local weekly quizzed attendees as to whether or not they could find Iraq on a map.  The reporter asked 40 pro-reform attendees and 40…

As I promised, here is Part 2 of Robinson’s post. In it she discusses what people can do in the short run to forestall things getting further out of hand than they are.  She promises a Part 3, that will take a longer term perspective, and I’ll post a link when it appears.
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