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History: Always fascinating, occasionally worth a comment (usually on the anniversary of something or other).
Religion: As a lapsed Anglican ("like falling out of a first-floor window"), my comments on religion — mainly on Christianity and Islam — are those of an outsider. My general attitude is that of an unwilling unbeliever: broadly sympathetic to religious feeling and experience, without ever having had much of either myself.
It seems plain to me in any case that religious feeling is a key component of human nature — though of course, like other components, stronger in some, weaker in others, and absent altogether in a few. There is therefore little point in railing against religion, since, at least until the "posthuman future" arrives, humanity is not going to be other than what it is.
Philosophy: Having no taste for academic philosophy, and having read very little, I really have nothing to say that I don't say under Human Sciences. The heading here should probably be "Other Humanities" or some such.
| Date | Place | Title | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | |||
| June 11, 2015 | Taki's Magazine | Two Great Wars | Very nasty work. |
| May 14, 2015 | Taki's Magazine | 300 Years of Prime Ministers | De facto if not de jure. |
| January 8, 2015 | Taki's Magazine | The Waters That Are Under the Earth | Metaphysics, mysticism, and woodworking. |
| 2014 | |||
| January/February 2014 | The American Spectator | Occasionalism Isn't Science | The problems with Intelligent Design. |
| 2013 | |||
| November 21, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | The Stupid Wars | The myth of the rational actor. |
| October 23, 2013 | VDARE | A White Flight from Christianity? | Could it become a ghetto religion? |
| October 10, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | The War Against the Past | Nathan Bedford Forrest remembered. |
| September 26, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | Climbing Mount Appomattox | What a lot there is to know about the War Between the States! |
| July 25, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | The View from Nowhere | Nutty beliefs and empirical skepticism. |
| 2012 | |||
| August 8, 2012 | VDARE | A Curious Anniversary | What Abraham Lincoln told the black freedmen. |
| July 26, 2012 | Taki's Magazine | Birth of a Civil War Buff | One set of lectures and I'm hooked. |
| 2011 | |||
| March 10, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | Listening to Louis | "Minister Farrakhan" to you. |
| January 5, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | Loyalty to the Tribe | Churchgoing for functional atheists |
| 2010 | |||
| September 15, 2010 | Taki's Magazine | Is Islam The New Communism? | If it is, can we proscribe it? |
| March 16, 2010 | NRO | Exceptionally Yours | Exceptionalism, like fire, needs to be kept firmly in its place. |
| 2008 | |||
| April 28, 2008 | NRO | A Blood Libel on Our Civilization |
Did Darwin inspire the Holocaust? |
| 2007 | |||
| December 19, 2007 | NRO | Attack and Counterattack | Do I mock Evangelicals? |
| September 20, 2007 | NRO | Islamophobophobia | Not much sympathy for Islamophobes. |
| February 20, 2007 | NRO | Religion & politics | Banned in officers' messes, unavoidable elsewhere. |
| 2006 | |||
| October 30, 2006 | NRO | Faith FAQ | What people ask, what I say. |
| July 13, 2006 | NRO | George Gilder, Metaphysician | Yet another whack at the creationists. |
| 2005 | |||
| December 14, 2005 | NRO | The Sea of Faith | Melancholy, long withdrawing roar, etc. |
| November 4, 2005 | NRO | Fifth of November | Guy Fawkes and his plot. |
| April 7, 2005 | NRO | Rearguard Pope | Death of John Paul II. |
| February 14, 2005 | National Review | But Is It Science? | Intelligent Design in the Age of Biology. |
| 2004 | |||
| August 27, 2004 | NRO | Kaiser Bill and Me | WW1 was personal. |
| May 27, 2004 | NRO | Seismic 1979 | The year the ice cracked. |
| May 19, 2004 | NRO | The Ancient Enemy | Civilization vs. barbarism. |
| 2003 | |||
| December 8, 2003 | National Review | Witnesses: A Greatest Generation of Anti-Communists |
Those born in the 1900s. |
| November 17, 2003 | NRO | The Last Christian Nation | Forget about them Brits. |
| September 1, 2003 | National Review | An Empire Like No Other | The British — what else? |
| August 25, 2003 | NRO | Affronts and Provocations | Against Christians, that is. |
| August 12, 2003 | NRO | The Eternal Heresy | Immanentizing the eschaton. |
| January 13, 2003 | NRO | A Barbarian's Barbarian | Attila T. Hun. |
| 2002 | |||
| August 15, 2002 | NRO | Vae victis! | Plain speaking from Rumsfeld. |
| August 6, 2002 | NRO | March of the Godless | God-haters storm the capital. |
| July 26, 2002 | NRO | Grief and Shame | New York's Irish famine memorial. |
| July 11, 2002 | NRO | Don't Blame Islam | There must be some good in it. |
| May 3, 2002 | NRO | The Missing Element | Priestly celibacy. |
| March 6, 2002 | NRO | Three Historians | Herodotus, Sima Qian, and S.D. Goitein. |
| 2001 | |||
| December 3, 2001 | National Review | Crusading They Went | Godfrey de Bouillon was a Republican. |
| November 13, 2001 | NRO | O Valiant Hearts | Remembering Remembrance Day. |
| October 11, 2001 | NRO | United States of Islam | King John was not a good king …. |
| May 29, 2001 | NRO | A Day That Will Live in Infamy |
That terrible May 29, 1453. |
| April 10, 2001 | NRO | The Jews and I | Confessions of a philosemite. |
| 1966(?) | Ethic | What Rough Beast | My first published opinion piece. |