The City of God by Augustine: Plato’s Shadow and the God Who Stepped Outside It
Few books in Western history have been composed under the pressure of genuine civilizational terror….
The Vestigial Bias: How AI Language Models Inherited the Prejudices of Their Ancestors and Why They Cannot Simply Shed Them
AI bias isn’t a bug — it’s an inheritance. Using Darwin’s concept of vestigial structures, this piece examines why bias in large language models cannot be patched at the output layer alone.
The Lenin Anthology, Edited by Robert C. Tucker — A Review
Eight hundred and thirty-two pages distilled from over fifty volumes of a dead man’s writing…
The History of Science’s Most Productive Mistake: How Phlogiston Theory Built the Experimental Infrastructure That Killed It
Phlogiston — the invisible fire-essence that doesn’t exist — produced some of the most rigorous chemistry of the 18th century. Here’s how a false theory built the tools that killed it.
The Satanic Witch by Anton LaVey — Seduction as a Discipline, Not a Gift
Forget the sulfur. Forget the black candles and the inverted pentagram. Strip away every piece…
Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips — The Grandeur of Going Slow
Reading Adam Phillips after Richard Dawkins is a bit like stepping off a highway and…
