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This is a reprint of a column from 2010, which I wanted to bring to the attention of any new readers here.| John C. Wright's Journal
Reprint of a column from 2008: I just finished reading the Solomon Kane anthology a friend of mine lent me. (http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Tales-Solomon-Kane/dp/0345461509) This addition is beautifully illustrated by Gary Gianni, who may be the reincarnation of Howard Pyle. Bloodshed? Stories written in 1928 are not going to be as gory as what we routinely show our […]| John C. Wright's Journal
This is a reprint of a column from a few years ago, but which bears repeating. Once the Church is restored to primacy, philosophy and related arts and sciences will likewise be revived, and the shameful neglect of generations undone. Philosophy traditionally was divided into seven major branches: Epistemology: the study of knowledge. What is […]| John C. Wright's Journal
Having said I would no longer post free fiction on Wednesday, here I am posting again. This time, the treat comes from my beautiful and talented lady wife. https://theroanokeglass.substack.com/p/merry-by-gaslight Merry by Gaslight By L. Jagi Lamplighter In the midst of sharing the latest details of her recurring dream with her three employees, Mabel Talwitz dropped […]| John C. Wright's Journal
This is a column from some time ago, which I reprint here merely to ask the question: what is the mental illness of knowing not how anything works, not knowing one knows not, and being confident one can make it work better by destroying the current imperfect system in the name of absurd utopias? There […]| John C. Wright's Journal
Consider this to be a final entry, if not an afterthought, to my lapsed practice of posting free fiction on Wednesday. This work first appeared in THE BOOK OF FEASTS AND SEASONS. Reprinted here for the purposes of commentary. The tale below was written as a deliberate contrast and counterpoint to the tale “If You […]| John C. Wright's Journal
Mr. Chesterton is a writer so prolific that even one who admires and lauds his work cannot have read all of it. Into this lucky mishap I myself fell today when I came across the following passage in his witty and trenchant work HERETICS. This is from Chapter 12: Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson Mr. […]| John C. Wright's Journal
Julia was twenty-six years old… and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor… She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning […]| John C. Wright's Journal
From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy. In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene. […]| John C. Wright's Journal
October 7th is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, honoring the Victory of Lepanto. On this date in 1571 fleets assembled by the combined forces of Naples, Sardinia, Venice, the Papacy, Genoa, Savoy and the Knights Hospitaller fought an desperate battle against the Turk in the Gulf of Patras. The victory saved Christendom. […]| John C. Wright's Journal
There are basically three interpretations of the cryptic verse in genesis saying the sons of God slept with the daughter of men and brought forth mighty men of the renown. 1. Milton, in PARADISE LOST takes the ‘Sons of God’ to mean godly men, that is, sons of Seth who were righteous. They were seduced […]| John C. Wright's Journal
I have heard of this telegram before. I had heard it jokingly called something like De Tocqueville’s DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, but concerning postwar Soviet Russia, sent by telegraph wire. In Feb 1946 George Kennan, an American diplomat living in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word telegram to President Truman’s State Department. Upon reading it for the first […]| John C. Wright's Journal
One might wonder why God destroyed the world in the time of Noah, if He knew He would also send Christ later? Why not send Christ rather than the great deluge? The question is actually a difficult one, because no man knows why God does or fails to do anything. One can only suppose that, […]| John C. Wright's Journal
From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy. In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene. […]| John C. Wright's Journal
OMAC, One-Man Army Corps, was Jack Kirby’s short lived near-future superhero comic, sadly unfinished, which ran a scant eight issues from 1974 to 1975.| John C. Wright's Journal
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For those of you following recent political burger joint events, Trump passed out free French fries at a local McDonald’s in Bucks County, PA, after being shown how to work the fry station.| John C. Wright's Journal
Bernal Diaz, who served under Cortes, in The Conquest of New Spain, wrote:| John C. Wright's Journal
Let me voice my vexed conclusions regarding the ongoing denigration by the self-anointed Elite of Columbus Day.| John C. Wright's Journal
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A reprint of a Radio Play review from ten years past, presented again for any readers who may have missed it. Links and some text updated. | scifiwright.com
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Odd to have two columns in a row which merely point to another man’s words, but the personal issues (and disorganization) has kept from from attending properly to my blog of late. Nonetheless, as a courtesy to my readers, I thought this column from Twitter work of genius, and well worth passing along.| John C. Wright's Journal
Today’s required reading. The words below are his, reprinted sneakily and without permission, but with great admiration. Original is here.| John C. Wright's Journal
From the pen of my beautiful and talented wife, L| John C. Wright's Journal
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I am the last person on earth to contribute a wise comment to the discussion of freewill vs determinism (or predestination, or any variant thereof) for the simple reason that I do not think the two incompatible.| John C. Wright's Journal
In Trump v. United States, the court holds that a former president has absolute immunity for his core constitutional powers.| John C. Wright's Journal