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The Irish Apostate
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MAGA, Putin, and the Seduction of the Past
The Great Gatsby
“The novel concerns the nature of the self: what a person is, whether a person can be remade, and what it costs, morally and spiritually, to attempt such a remaking.”

Lust, Oil, and the Cost Paid by Children
Death in Venice
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Reason, Obsession, and the Abyss; Or, Make The Pequod Great Again
Moby Dick
“What happens to a democratic community when it is placed under the command of a will that recognizes no limit but its own?”
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The Irish Apostate

The Logic of Nonsense

What RFK Jr. and Big Pharma Have in Common

The Illusion of Self-Determination

Fate, Decline, and the Illusion of Self

Fate and the Eternal Spirit

Lust, Oil, and the Cost Paid by Children

Fate and the Limits of the Self

Fate and Hypocrisy in the Revivalist Soul

Fate and Morality in Human Struggle

What Trump, Orbán, and Marine Le Pen Owe to a Norwegian Farmer

Fate and Freedom in the American Self

Reason, Obsession, and the Abyss; Or, Make The Pequod Great Again

The Land's Will and Human Silence

Loss and Longing in Lives Unlived

The Power of the Unknown

Civic Virtue and the Crisis of the Self

MAGA, Putin, and the Seduction of the Past

The Illusion of Endless Desire

The Illusion of Power and the Collapse of Will

The Self in the Shadow of Industry

Truth Against Ideology and Illusion

The Loss of Self and the Call of the Inhuman

The Limits of the Human Will

The Impossible Self of Consciousness