The Witch Within

Robert Eggers' 2015 film The Witch: A New England Folktale is one of the rare horror films that earns the right to be called theological.

An Historical Survey of Anarchist Thought

A survey of anarchist thought from ancient Greece and Daoist China through the radical Reformation, the 19th-century theorists who named the tradition, and the analytic philosophers and anthropologists who gave it new rigor — tracing a question that has never been adequately answered.

The First Satyagrahi

Twenty-five centuries before Gandhi, the Buddha built the same machine: moral witness against a vulnerable public transcript, a portable anti-wolf-pack institution, and a political transformation without a Napoleon.

Wolves, Sheep, and the Absent Shepherd

Marx got the economics mostly right and the anthropology catastrophically wrong. This paper proposes a tripartite model — wolves, sheep, and the structurally rare shepherd — to explain why revolution reliably produces the next Napoleon, and what, within genuine constraints, can actually be done.

A Well-Lit Ruin

A first-person reckoning with the legacy of Owsley Stanley, LSD, and the wreckage of the sixties dream — told through the lens of Kid Charlemagne. On perception, the prior hallucination of consensus reality, and the price of returning with open eyes.