Jeffrey Kripal is one of our most fascinating scholars of religious studies. For thirty years, he has combined rigorous, even obsessive, readings of religious texts with expansive philosophical and theoretical capacity; he works both small and big. But he has also courted controversy. In the first phase of his career, Kripal’s work on eroticism and| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Embrace WEIRD Identity Politics| 1000yearview.substack.com
How the West Won and Where It Got Us| 1000yearview.substack.com
Over the past week and a half I’ve been on the road and camping out. And while I’ve gotten more than a few interesting stories and anecdotes driving through upstate New York and the haunted rumour shadowed mountains of Pennsylvania....| www.anarchonomicon.com
There are thousands of crappy videos in aid of dubious projects. So I generally have to be paid to care about any of them. And lo, my latest hire: to examine what’s going on with Stardusk’s half-hour video Protectors, Providers, Nazis and Prostitutes on his channel Thinking-Ape. Considered one of the founding members of the […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
Women are not a finer form of Homo sapien. (I)| www.lorenzofromoz.net
The progressive coalition is splitting over Israel and identity politics.| www.natesilver.net
In the cult of busyness the simplistic logic of finance acts as a universal linguistic and psychological security blanket. The world of finance feels comfortable because it conjures up the illusion…| Autistic Collaboration