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Why I am Christian again
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The Disenchantment of the Modern World Is a Myth
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The New Renaissance Will Be Techno-Rural
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33
The Spiritual-But-Not-Religious Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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56
Physicist Claims Sagrada Familia Is a Portal to Interstellar Space
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31
I Want to Be a Hero
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I Want to Be a Hero
But the death of place makes it impossible.
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James Taylor Foreman
36
Harry Potter and the Dark Lord of the Third Reich
The creation myth of modernity.
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James Taylor Foreman
9
The Religious Impulse to Return to the '90s
Sacred and profane time.
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James Taylor Foreman
7
The Sea Mammal Theory of Writing
Fish out of water... and then back in again.
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3
It's Just a Dream
How to use dreams to become wise.
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4
Dead Poets and The Devil’s Waterhole
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau
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I See Nietzsche Fall Like Lightning
On the dissident right.
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The Metaphor
The Metaphor
Reality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
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