“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
The latest episode of the Didactic Mind podcast is up. This week is all about economics, politics, and history, and concerns the new Cold War being fought right now between the USA and China. In this podcast, I argue that Cold War 2 can actually be won pretty easily...
We are back on track this week with the podcast on time and on budget (so to speak), with an episode about the pandemic of fatherlessness that is crippling the West right now. I explore the ways in which the destruction of fatherhood has left us in a very precarious...
Reader and friend JohnC posted a long series of questions about generational differences between the Baby Boomers, GenXers, Millennial(tard)s, and GenZ in a couple of comments on the Great Mondaydact Browser Buster from earlier this week: Hey Didact what are thoughts...
This podcast was supposed to go up on Sunday, but I never did get a chance to actually sit down and record it. So, as promised yesterday, here it is, a bit late, but that’s better than not doing it at all. This week’s podcast is all about what it...
In this week’s podcast, I offer up some life lessons that I have learned and crystallised into what I hope passes for wisdom these days: There were plenty of other lessons that I couldn’t and didn’t get around to mentioning. I might cover those...
There is an old quote from, I think, martial arts legend Bruce Lee which goes something like this: “Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a...
It is fashionable, especially of late, among the intelligentsia and the mainstream whorenalist classes to run down the USA as the most racist and awful country in the world. They maintain that the past history and present state of the USA in particular, and of Western...
In this week’s podcast, I talk about the need for failure and the lessons that you can learn from it. I discuss how to look at failure and testing through a Christian lens and explain why those tests are necessary and important. Here is the podcast embedded...
In the fourth chapter of his superb book, The Great Heresies, the Catholic apologist and debater Hillaire Belloc – of whom I have written very favourably in the past, and with very good reason – explored the Albigensian or Cathar Heresy against the...
In this week’s podcast episode, I discuss the various forms of government that have been tried throughout human history, ranging from absolute state rule to absolute individual rule and the various forms in between, and I talk about the ones that work and why. I...
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