Gullible Again
Sylvia Shawcross Sometimes when it is grey and damp and the air is heavy with the taste of a dreary day you can go down to the other side...
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 past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to...
The Last Temptation of Things
Edward Curtin “I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.” Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays. Let me tell...
Admit You’re Wrong, Or Die
Todd Hayen OK, so maybe (maybe) not so dramatic as that, but come on people, alright already, you’re wrong, admit it and start what you need to do to...
The Utopia that Never Was
Todd Hayen About three years ago, before this Covid swill was poured down our throats, my wife pointed out an article in the Toronto Star about a proposal to...
Occult Totalitarianism
Todd Hayen Oc·cult (adjective) [ ə’kʌlt ] 1. supernatural or magic, 2. not understandable, 3. secret, 4. hidden, 5. difficult to see. All five of these definitions could describe...
Waking Up in a Nightmare
Todd Hayen One thing this global awakening (at least an awakening for me and my fellow shrews) has made me realize is that we all have been living 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 being born, even though we don’t choose it, which may...
Why is Everything Broken?
Edward Curtin “Begin then with a fracture, a cesura, a rent; opening a crack in this fallen world, a shaft of light.” Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body Being sick for...
Revelation of the Method
Dustin Broadbery Audio Version New Feature! CIA Director, William Casey is reputed to have said to Ronald Reagan ‘We’ll know our disinformation is complete when everything the American public...
The Music of Forgetting
Mr. Z I remember when we first came to this small Mexican island in the Caribbean. The pace of life was very slow and time seemed to spiral, not...
The Death of Science and the Rebirth of Superstition
Todd Hayen PhD “Science denier!!” A snarky phrase I am sure most of you have heard many times. In the beginning of this Covid debacle, when there was clearly...
Who Would You Be?
Dielle Ciesco Who would you be? A lot of people wonder: if I’d been alive at the time of the 2nd World War, who would I have been? Would...
Between Us
Edward Curtin The road led up the hill between houses until it came to the lake where it ran between the lake and the woods and the thought of...
An Epidemic of Low Expectations
David Perez Years ago, I was sitting in a café with my rabble-rousing friend James, both of us gnawing our teeth over the myriad difficulties facing the peace and...
The Capture of Goodness
Sinead Murphy ‘Goodness’ is not the word I wanted to use in this article. But ‘ethics’ sounded too abstract, ‘morality’ too rule-bound, ‘virtue’ too archaic, and ‘kindness’ too corporate...
Denying the Demonic
Edward Curtin In March of last year as the coronavirus panic was starting, I wrote a somewhat flippant article saying that the obsession with buying and hoarding toilet paper...
The Pine-eyed Boy Escapes from the Belly of the Dark Night in the Fish’s Tale
Edward Curtin It’s hard to say where things begin, but they do, as do we, and we are somehow in them and they in us, and a story begins....
The Invincible Green Stick of Happiness
Edward Curtin After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman poet Catullus once said, in...
A Child’s Christmas Gift of Freedom
Edward Curtin Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated...
