Month: October 2022

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The expanding Church saw some good aspects in these pagan customs: salutary reflection on death, wariness of dark powers, and the quixotic, distinctively human defiance of holding a feast just as the darkness set in. For these reasons, the Church took Samhain and ‘baptised’ it. By the 9th century, the 1st of November had in Britain and Ireland become All Hallows’ Day—in modern English, All […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The Hobbesian ambition of modern politics, to erect an artificial God imbued with quasi-divine attributes, has been realized on the plane not of political but of technological order and will almost certainly become more total still as biometrics fuses biotechnology and information technology together with the “internet of things”—tracking, predicting, and controlling the details of even our bodily life.[32] Almighty Google, to whom all hearts […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "After two years of trolling the twitterverse in the name of integralism, Sohrab Ahmari announced on Twitter that he and his postliberal friends were men of aIn a recent essay for Compact, Jon Askonas argues convincingly that the conservative project failed because “it didn’t take into account the revolutionary principle of technology, and its intrinsic connection to the telos of sheer profit.” Conservatives, he says, […]