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Is a Happy New Year Possible?
Edward Curtin “The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus...
Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice
Margaret Anna Alice
The following poem was inspired by a conversation with Mike Yeadon. We have both independently noticed the increasing use...
A Meaningless Life
Todd Hayen In Dr. Mattias Desmet’s insightful book The Psychology of Totalitarianism he posits that one of the primary...
Tolkien Anniversary: A Tribute to the Father of Fantasy
JR Leach Today – 3rd of January 2023 – marks Professor JRR Tolkien’s one-hundred and thirty-first birthday. This is...
WATCH: Fake Virtue with Alan Watts
JR Leach “The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the...
A Gift of Words
Edward Curtin
“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.”...
The Enlightenment & the Emancipation of Humanity
Charles Chevalier To what extent was Enlightenment one of human emancipation? As Hampson (1968) describes the period “an embarrassment...
Ancient Apocalypse & Graham Hancock’s ‘Dangerous Ideas’
JR Leach It never ceases to amaze me what seemingly innocuous ideas the establishment media find ‘dangerous’ or ‘controversial’....
Leonard Cohen in Joy and Sorrow: “Hallelujah”
Edward Curtin “There’s a blaze of light in every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or...
Stoned Screaming Caterpillars
Sylvia Shawcross I know we’re really all tired of the types of people in the world but really there...
John Carpenter, Authoritarian Monsters & Dictatorship in Disguise
John Whitehead “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one...
Don Quixote…de la Left!
Jordan Henderson
The pull of Right vs Left Politics is still so strong, at least here in the USA, that I...
AUDIO: Ed Curtin on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell
Author and sociology teacher (and regular OffG contributor) Edward Curtin joins Jesse Zurawell on the most recent episode of...
REVIEW: The Rings of Power
When an author tells a story they invite you, without prejudice, to share in their imagination. And when Tolkien...
REVIEW: ‘The Courage to Face COVID-19’
Aruna Rodrigues John Leake is a best-selling an “experienced non-fiction, true crime author”. Having just read what must be...
Waking Up in a Nightmare
Todd Hayen One thing this global awakening (at least an awakening for me and my fellow shrews) has made...
REVIEW: The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
Edward Curtin Human duplicity is a marvel to contemplate. This riveting documentary is an excellent example of such cunning in...
REVIEW: Is there life after death?
Edward Curtin Life is entwined with death from the start, for death is the price we must pay for...
REVIEW: Science Set Free
Ryan Matters In Science Set Free, Rupert Sheldrake sets out to probe the shaky foundations of materialist science and...
REVIEW: To Vac or Novak That is The Question
Joanna Sharp So what do we do on a weekend evening of the New Normal? ‘To Vac or Novak....