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Myth of Science Ep. 3: The Dream of Mechanism
October 26, 2026The whole crux of scientific thinking is to view the world as a machine. But is this really justified or just part of our Western imaginative framework? What are the alternatives, and how do we even think about the world otherwise? Music…
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Myth of Science Ep. 2: World Domination
October 19, 2026No way of viewing the world is "neutral," and the scientific worldview is no exception. Our idea of "science" comes out of our distinctly Faustian view of the world, one that is both deeply religious and has one ultimate goal in mind…
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Myth of Science Ep. 1: The Myth of Progress
October 12, 2026Since the Scientific Revolution, we've been telling ourselves a very specific narrative about our own history, one that's so biased even secular scholars now refer to it as the "myth of progress." But myth or not, it still rules our…
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Storytelling Ep. 4: Folk Stories for a New Era
September 14, 2026Folk stories used to be local, human, and participatory, but in our time stories have become corporatized and dis-incarnated. Are tabletop games, and role-playing games in particular, a way we return to local stories that we both tell and…
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Storytelling Ep.3: The Language of Stories
September 7, 2026Why did Tolkien hate allegory but fill his stories with mythic imagery? Because there's a difference between disguising your point as an author and telling a story grounded in eternal themes. This is the reason that the most beloved…
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Storytelling Ep. 2: Beauty Is Truth
August 31, 2026In consumer culture we think of stories as entertainment and aesthetics as decoration, but that is not how ancient people thought. Stories for them were religious, and beauty was the image of truth. We see this most profoundly in…
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Storytelling Ep.1: Reality Is a Story
August 25, 2026In every culture and every age, people tell stories. It's a universal human practice because reality itself is a story. Because stories are worldviews, they are more religious than anything else. How you read the story, therefore, makes…
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Decline of the West Ep.4: Magian Man
August 3, 2026Does Orthodoxy belong to the Classical "world-feeling" or to the Western? Neither! Orthodoxy inspired a new culture that rose out of the ashes of Classical antiquity and which also gave birth to its rivals: Islam, Judaism, Nestorianism…
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Decline of the West Ep. 3: Faustian Man
July 27, 2026According to Spengler, our Western culture did not begin with the Greeks and Romans but was born around the year 1000 with a completely new take on everything from math to art to religion, all in pursuit of the same thing: infinite…
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Decline of the West Ep. 2: Classical Man
July 21, 2026In trying to understand what the West really is, it's helpful to contrast the things that we as a culture find intuitive with a culture that would NOT have found them intuitive at all: the Greeks and Romans, whose cultures were basically…
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Decline of the West Ep.1: World-Feeling
July 13, 2026Is the West dying? Can we save it? What should Christians do? To answer these questions, we need to take a big step back and answer not just the question "What is the West?" but "What is culture itself?" To do that we turn to Oswald…
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Neo-Politics Ep.4: Neo-Reactionary
June 22, 2026Curtis Yarvin says the Left always claims to be the victim, but still always beats the right, because the Left-Right dichotomy—along with Democracy—is a construct. Dr. Zac puts this view into an Orthodox framework and assesses Yarvin's…

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