“You can see God by sniffing the gas in a cotton.” — Allen Ginsberg

Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation. The phenomenon of Allen Ginsberg by Bruce Bawer, The New Criterion On Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, 1985. I’m so lucky to be nutty.—Allen Ginsberg, “Bop Lyrics” (1949) The very first poem in Allen Ginsberg’s Collected Poems 1947-1980 [1] seems, in a way, to prophesy Ginsberg’s entire career. It is titled “In Society,” and it dates… Read More “You can see God by sniffing the gas in a cotton.” — Allen Ginsberg

November 21, 2025November 21, 2025 SDHLeave a comment

Chesterton: “Rich men are not very likely to be morally trustworthy”

“The poor man is one who wants more, not one who is content with what he has“— Epictetus, Stoic philosopher. I didn’t say the following, Chesterton did: “Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the beginning that the danger was not… Read More Chesterton: “Rich men are not very likely to be morally trustworthy”

October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 SDH

America As Spectacle: Beyond Good and Evil.

Is “our” American Enlightenment philosophy an example of sheer political cynicism, or is it brute historical fact where there is no God but power, imperial Roman-like power, redux? Appearance, reality, unreality. We see one thing when reality is so often another. A lot of Enlightenment philosophy is like that. Consider a few of modern day… Read More America As Spectacle: Beyond Good and Evil.

May 20, 2024April 20, 2025 SDH

Masculinity Without Virtue

Jonathan Van Maren writes, “Tate is the personification of various internet subcultures, combining the critiques of the anti-feminist “manosphere” and the alt-right with the posture of a pickup artist. A self-described pimp who has stated he believes sexual fidelity is only for women, he made his millions running porn sites. He now uses social media… Read More Masculinity Without Virtue

July 27, 2023July 27, 2023 SDH

Are We Reliving a New Phase of the Hiss – Chambers Drama In Our Time?

And the Whittaker Chambers masterpiece, Witness. Excerpt from an Amazon review of Witness by T. Graczewski. “Witness” makes the Red Scare of the early 1950s much more palpable and understandable for twenty-first century American readers. The conspiracy that Chambers details in “Witness” is stunning in its scope and audacious in its aims. Today, McCarthyism and… Read More Are We Reliving a New Phase of the Hiss – Chambers Drama In Our Time?

April 5, 2023December 15, 2024 SDH

House Democrats Elect Abortion Activist Hakeem Jeffries as New Leader, Replacing Nancy Pelosi

“… A year earlier, Jeffries called pro-life Texans a “bunch of yahoos” for passing a ban on abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable. Various state and national polls have shown about half of all Americans support heartbeat laws. And new research indicates the law has saved as many as 10,000 unborn babies’ lives so far. Democrat leaders like Jeffries want to… Read More House Democrats Elect Abortion Activist Hakeem Jeffries as New Leader, Replacing Nancy Pelosi

November 30, 2022December 2, 2022 SDH

Augustine and the Nihil

The will to power and the privatio boni — St. Augustine “… the worshipers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious. Only let it remain undefeated, they say, only let it flourish and abound in resources; let it be… Read More Augustine and the Nihil

October 30, 2022October 31, 2022 SDH

Somewhere Over The 🌈 Revolution

Note: Most of us understand I think that it is important to distinguish homosexual persons (persons with homosexual tendencies ) from the elite ideological movements which, flouting the objective Natural Law, serve as the vehicle for the totalitarian transformation of morals, language, law, history, culture, institutions and nations in the West. — SH There is no mystery here, in… Read More Somewhere Over The 🌈 Revolution

October 17, 2022December 11, 2025 SDH

How woke is Nietzsche?

He believed in self-ID before it was fashionable Giles Fraser.August 25, 2022.Unheard “There are no facts,” said Nietzsche, “only interpretations.” Some think the philosopher, who died on this day in 1900, went mad through syphilis; others that he had brain cancer. But whatever the cause of his death, a type of madness has been his… Read More How woke is Nietzsche?

August 26, 2022September 1, 2022 SDH

Bill Gates and Other “Non-profit” Foundations

James Li breaks down the dark side of the non-profit industrial complex which is rife with corruption, power, and a lack of transparency (Click image). Too, Utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer is awarded the Berggruen Prize. More on him below. Culture of Death by First Thing’s Wesley J. Smith “reveals how more and more doctors have withdrawn… Read More Bill Gates and Other “Non-profit” Foundations

May 21, 2022June 2, 2024 SDH

Ukraine: A Terrifying Scenario

The Weston Institute for International and Public Affairs The Watson Institute, Brown University, R.I., is a community of scholars, practitioners, and students whose work aims to help us understand and address these critical challenges. It is dedicated to meaningful social science research and teaching, and animated by the conviction that informed policy can change systems… Read More Ukraine: A Terrifying Scenario

May 2, 2022November 21, 2024 SDH

Vlad the Perplexing

John Waters, Ireland: ‘The biggest lie is that Russia is intent upon rebuilding the Soviet Union. Instead, Putin is building a new civilisation, based on Christianity, tradition, nationhood and family…‘ — view of John Waters, Ireland, Substack Putin is said to have liberated the Russian Orthodox Church. Solzhenitsyn thought well of him mostly, if not… Read More Vlad the Perplexing

February 28, 2022January 8, 2025 SDHLeave a comment

Catholic Philosopher Josef Pieper: Abuse of Language — Abuse of Power

“One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends. Reality… Read More Catholic Philosopher Josef Pieper: Abuse of Language — Abuse of Power

February 28, 2022February 16, 2023 SDHLeave a comment

Where the Radical Left Would Take Us

Foucault’s Child-Sex Allegations Should Shock But Not Surprise us. He elevated common criminality into a virtue. Dr. Matt Treacy. The allegations that the French philosopher Michel Foucault – who has been long admired and oft-quoted by the liberal left in Ireland [and of course everywhere] – repeatedly “raped” pre-pubescent boys in Tunisia during his time as a… Read More Where the Radical Left Would Take Us

February 18, 2022September 30, 2024 SDHLeave a comment

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