The French Election and Europe’s Post-Historical Collapse, Merion West, July 10, 2024: An article on the French election from the perspective of the philosophy of history.
College Protests and the Limits of Virtue, Merion West, May 7, 2024: An article discussing the college protests in America and the different civilizational stages of virtue.
Islam and the West: Culturally and Theologically Divided, Merion West, December 22, 2023: A lengthy article analyzing the philosophical compatibility problems between Islam and the West.
What One Must Understand about the New Israel War, Merion West, November 11, 2023. An article explaining the philosophical and cultural ramifications of the war for the West.
America Is Still the Freest Country, The American Conservative, November 10, 2022. An article explaining what freedom indices misunderstand about American vis-à-vis European culture.
In Defense of Slippery Slope-Arguments, City Journal, September 6, 2022 (simultaneously their Summer 2022 print issue, pp. 9-10). An article on why the “slippery slope” is often true (the editors removed from it everything of philosophical interest).
The Classically Greek Roots of Civilizational Self-Doubt, Quillette, July 13, 2022. A lightly edited excerpt from Chapter 1 of my book Western Self-Contempt.
The Dangers of Oikophobia, The American Conservative, March 26, 2022. A final introductory article on the subject of oikophobia.
Herbert Marcuse and the Left’s Endless Campaign Against Western ‘Repression’, Quillette, March 2, 2021. A lightly edited excerpt from Chapter 11 of my book Western Self-Contempt.
Covid and Christianity, City Journal, December 27, 2021. An article analyzing religious reasons why the Left and Right are divided over Covid policy.
Why Those Who Claim to “Follow the Science” Are More Likely to Ignore It, The Federalist, January 4, 2021. An article on politicians’ misuse of “science” in locking down their societies.
Obacht, Oikophobie, Schweizer Monat, 1073, February 2020, pp. 24-29. An article on oikophobia, with an additional section on the philosophy of history. [In German.]
‘Oikophobia’: Our Western Self-Hatred, Quillette, October 7, 2019. An introductory article on oikophobia. (It has been translated wholly or partly into Italian, French, et al.)
Degrees of Diversity, The Salisbury Review, Vol. 34 No. 2, Winter 2015, pp. 23-26. An article on intellectual censorship in academia. www.salisburyreview.com [Not available on the website, but posted on my Facebook wall on December 17, 2019.]
ISIS. A Running Obituary, The Salisbury Review, Vol. 34 No. 1, Autumn 2015, pp. 26-27. An article on Islam and the West. www.salisburyreview.com [Not available online.]
Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations, Cornell University Press, May 15, 2022. The book traces the historical apparition of oikophobia - hatred or disparagement of one's own culture - as a type of social decadence that will arise under a particular set of circumstances, from ancient Greece to the present, and then discusses its philosophical implications within cultures.
Die Notwendigkeit der Notwendigkeit (The Necessity of Necessity), Frankfurt 2013, my Heidelberg doctoral dissertation, written in German and published as a monograph, discusses the conflict between the early Greek Stoics, especially Chrysippus, and the late Peripatetic philosopher Alexander of Aphrodisias regarding issues of determinism, personal agency, and free will. Some modern philosophers, such as Leibniz and Hume, also play a role.
Art and Aesthetics, New York 2006 and La Seyne-sur-mer 2016, my second (and shortest) book, is divided into four thematically linked essays and deals mainly with contemporary aesthetics and issues of modern artistic existence. It also continues the attack on academia begun in the previous book. In this 2016 edition it is accompanied - for reasons explained in the book - by a CD of operatic arias sung by the French mezzo-soprano Anna Cley.
Statements, New York 1999, my first book (self-published), whose two parts I wrote when I was 17 and 19 years old, respectively. It deals mainly with issues of ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of history. It also contains my first critique of academia.