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World on FIRE

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

The FIRE strategy -- which stands for financial independence, retire early -- doesn’t alter the debt-peonage economy; it just carves out exceptions for a select few.

All the World Is Staged

HAS THE ONLINE WORLD COLONIZED OUR INWARD EXISTENCE?

Jason M. Morgan

Most of us probably spend more time each day looking at screens than at anything, or anyone, else. Our thinking is curdled out of online scenarios.

Sons of Liberty, Sons of Anarchy

PURITANISM COUPLED WITH HELLIONISM IS OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER

Jason M. Morgan

We Americans are a revolutionary people. Our homegrown hooligans are convinced of the purity of their motives and their righteousness.

The Golden Age of Quackery

OUR POST-CHRISTIAN ANTI-CULTURE FALLS FOR FRAUD & IDOLS

Jason M. Morgan

The West's turning away from Faith and the sacraments has opened a void we now try to fill with whatever hucksters come up with next.

Conservatism: The God That Failed

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

Conservatism claims to respect the Church, to have regard for God, but it reduces the Church and remolds God as a supporting figure.

Denizens of a Pale Blue Dust Mote

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

Carl Sagan’s immanent nihilism is premised on the seemingly conflicting notions that mankind is nothing and yet everything, simultaneously.

“Raising Awareness”: Reducing Philanthropy to Vanity

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

There is something very particularly American about "raising awareness": it is democratic, in seeking to sway public opinion; it is optimistic; it is evangelical and yet post-Christian.

By the Lakes of Babylon

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

Fr. Hesburgh proved to be a perfect avatar for the Notre Dame he created: an endorser of some kind of vaguely conceived “natural religion.”

The Great Awokening: The Puritan Roots of the Social Justice Warrior

Jason M. Morgan

Social Justice Warriors behave like cult members. They are little Cromwells who demand Robespierre-level ideological purity of every single person.

Finding Security Behind Closed Doors

THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION WAS REALLY ABOUT SELFISHNESS

Jason M. Morgan

The sexbot is a tool that uses us and mocks our weakness. It is a vision of Hell: inhuman, ruthless, mendacious, comfortless, and cold.

Emblem of an Exhausted Era

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

"Novitiate" is a film to be expected at the bitter, burnt-out end of the sexual revolution. It is not so much a movie as a cry for help.