Islam and the Left — Not until the start of the Gaza war was it clear just how much the Western Left has embraced the Palestinian cause. Why, one wonders, of all the conflicts in the world, has this become

Modern Religion — I remember a decade and a half ago when atheism first found its voice and came charging into the public discourse, denouncing Christianity and waving around a cudgel of rationality1. The previous quiet skirmishes now

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition – Frances Yates – Part 2 — Ficino, who was at times philosopher, priest, and doctor, had published several volumes in his life in which he had taken as axiom, as the middle ages were want to do, the influence of the

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition – Frances Yates – Part 1 — I have a slow ongoing project of reading Frances Yates book Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, a wonderfully engaging book which dissects the various schools of theology and magic that formed the precursor and

Some lessons learned about language — I have come to language learning in a manner that I first acquired when studying Classical Greek in college. It was the Greek of Plato and Aristotle, a pristine thing whose grammar and declinations were

Book Review - The Demonologist - The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren – Gerald Brittle — Who knew that the reality of non-human spirits (not human spirit’s mind you, these never had a human body) was so close? They are all about, held at bay only by our good nature and