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February 2017

February 10, 2017

The Stanford Memorial Resolution for René Girard

René Girard was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Catholics tend to...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Don’t Look to Secularism if You Want to Bathe in a Kinder, Gentler World

The problem of violence is an inherently human problem. It is unavoidable, because violence is...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Why Are Muslims Filling Up France’s Traditionally Empty Churches Today?

As someone who lived in Nantes, France for nearly a year I can say that...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

Love Hurts: Orlando Shooting Was Mateen’s Revenge on Lovers, Not Terrorism

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has...

June 19, 2016

Don’t Click on Father’s Day Clickbait – Click Here Instead

There are always people who will have silly objections to things bloggers write, but "This...

June 14, 2016

Rene Girard: No, Christianity is Not a Religion of Peace!

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to...

May 2016

May 28, 2016

Obama Used Original Sin to Explain Hiroshima

If one bothers to scratch even a little below the surface then it becomes clear...

May 05, 2016

Cinco de Mayo Especial: The Legacy of Rene Girard

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican Army's surprising defeat of French troops at the Battle of Puebla on May 5,...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

“René Girard never played the Great Man,” says biographer.

René Girard was an influential theorist, member of the Académie française, professor at Stanford since 1981,...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

The Jonah Paradox: Is Humanity Living on Borrowed Time?

The Jonah Paradox, as conceived in Dupuy's The Mark of the Sacred, is the existential mission...

November 16, 2015

Why Have Civilians Become Primary Jihadist Targets?

There is nothing more heinous than the military targeting of innocent civilians like in the...

November 15, 2015

Cosmos: Weakened Edition, 7

What's not weak this week highlights the violent scapegoating origins of all human culture. 1. 4...

November 13, 2015

Is the Higher Education Turboencabulator Fixable?

Higher education is broken. Nobody knows this better than people within humanities departments. This is...

November 12, 2015

TOP10 Books: The Girard Option of Interdisciplinary Influence

Bishop Robert Barron proposed René Girard (1923 - 2015) as a late modern Church Father in a...

November 11, 2015

A New Springtime for Hitler?

On Veterans Day it behooves us to take another look at Timothy Snyder's Black Earth:...

November 08, 2015

Cosmos: Weakened Edition, 6

Fully half of this week's most popular posts were related to René Girard (RIP). I suspect...

November 06, 2015

Girard: Islamic Extremism is Symmetrically Related to Western Wealth

Comboxes are usually places of despair that demonstrate the following dictum: Abandon all hope all...

November 05, 2015

René Girard: The Papacy Defeated the West

The medieval West is frequently identified with Christendom. Girard sets the record straight in Battling to...

November 04, 2015

Lux Aeterna: RIP René Girard (December 25, 1923 – Nov 4, 2015)

René Girard, Stanford University professor, an Immortel of the Académie Française, one of the most influential thinkers of...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Why is THIS Pope Francis’s Hardest American Saying?

The roundups of the papal visit are making the rounds everywhere. There's much to celebrate,...

July 2015

July 08, 2015

NO JOKE: Pope Francis to be Tried by Re-Established Sanhedrin!

I found the weirdest piece of news on my day off from my new temp...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

René Girard: Is Christianity a Myth?

I spent an afternoon, and the better part of the evening, in the ER yesterday....

May 20, 2015

Exposé: The Culture of Deathly Desire Behind Capitalist Anorexia

The rediscovery of imitative (mimetic) desire of nature is one of the most important philosophical-anthropological...

May 19, 2015

Identity-Protective Cognition: Science Finally Discovers Original Sin?!

Aquinas said something to this effect many times in his copious publications: The eternal Father's...

March 2015

March 09, 2015

Satan Likes Pure Spirituality, But St. Augustine Prays Over Butts

Last week I introduced you to Fabrice Hadjadj whose Faith of the Demons which is...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

1 Thing Nobody Noticed about Oscar Best Foreign Film Winner Ida

Great art always shows you more than you are prepared to see. While watching Ida...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

From Napoleon to Bin Laden: France and Modern Terrorism

Like amber national anthems preserve monstrosities from the past. Frequently this past humbles the clean self-image...

January 05, 2015

I Have Met Many Secular Bigots (Calasso on Sacrifice)

It's a big deal any time Roberto Calasso releases a book, because his books always...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Girard: Assisted Suicide and the Further Intensification of Problems

My colleague Kathy Schiffer followed the Brittany Maynard assisted suicide case closely on her blog....

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Psychopolitics: Schmitt, Bush’s Iraq Mess, and the Saddam Solution

Carl Schmitt who was one of those extremely bad Catholics like Heidegger who...