The Savior's Example of Peacemaking
[This is a sacrament meeting talk that I gave on October 12th.
Bennett's Phylactery
The unnaturally preserved blog of Dr. John C Bennett
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Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
[Repost of Episode 53 of the EXIT Podcast]
Natal Conference 2023
By the end of this century, every country on earth will have a shrinking population.
How Did the Taliban Win?
Even among smart dissident types, the default explanation for the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan is basically just “grit” and “sticktuitiveness” and “giving 110%” (plus maybe “asabiyyah”, which is a $10 dissident word for “teamwork”).
#15: Breeding Our Way Out
Genghis Khan has 16 million direct descendants: supposedly 8% of the population of the territory he conquered, in a long band from Outer Manchuria to Iran. But his legacy is homeopathic: the Uzbeks looks like Uzbeks, the Kazakhs look Kazakh, and they sell kebab or mine fluorspar or build Daewoos, presumably as they would whether they carried the Khan’s C*(xC3c) Y-chromosomal haplogroup or not.…
#14: Elon Said It's My Turn to Root Your Limbic System
Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars.
The Frontier Was Always Closed (To You)
Some thoughts about Albion’s Seed for the Fourth of July, and why this incredibly fractious group of (by modern standards) patriarchal authoritarian illiberals all got together to design a system of government with freedom of speech, religious toleration, due process, separation of powers, etc.
#13: Sacred Cowardice
I have been asked to provide a take on the “Mormon MomTok” “soft swinger” scandal, in my official capacity as Brand Ambassador.
The Lord Jesus
I’ve been chewing on five or six different essays for the last several months, and they’ve never come out quite right, and I’ve realized that they’re all aiming in roughly the same direction.
Amira (Part 3)
Grace spent a few weeks in the hospital.