Mass Society
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Desire: Curated Before Noticed
A person begins forgetting what it feels like to encounter reality without immediately filtering it through visibility, aspiration, anxiety, or comparison. Silence becomes difficult. Boredom becomes intolerable. Ordinary life begins to feel insufficient unless it can be translated into something shareable, admirable, or meaningful to others. Continue reading
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A Preview of “The Architecture of Authenticity”
What follows is a preview of the book I am writing. I will be spending much of the summer of 2026. Sooo… a request: I am dying to hear if you would like to read a book like this. Would you? Continue reading
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The Innocence That Kills: American Exceptionalism as Spiritual Pathology
The pattern is not incidental. It is structural. Each act of civilizational harm is metabolized by the myth of exceptionalism and converted into evidence of American seriousness, American resolve, American willingness to bear the weight of world-historical responsibility. The victims become, at best, unfortunate costs. The perpetrators remain, in their own self-understanding, the good guys. Continue reading
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How Governments Frame Wars to Control the Moral Question
The first battle in many wars is therefore a battle over framing. Leaders attempt to shape the moral question the public believes it must answer. If they succeed, they gain a powerful advantage. People do not simply react to events. They react to the story that explains those events. Continue reading
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Donald Trump and Hannah Arendt’s On Violence: Power Without Power
“A politics that cannot cooperate must coerce. And a politics that must coerce has already failed.” Continue reading
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Carney at the World Economic Forum – with commentary, links and references
Greenland looks like it will be an international testing ground. Minneapolis looks like the domestic testing ground. Continue reading
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The Death of Ivan Ilych and 3 Days of Screaming on the Beach
“Once we faced the existential terror and went through it, we began to re-connect and enjoy life.” Continue reading
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Anabaptism and the Post Secular Condition: Witness, Pluralism, and the Limits of Secular Reason
I had gone out into the world as if it was completely unknown; I came back with the world in tow. Continue reading
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Secularism and Pluralism: Divergent Social Imaginaries
My faith as a Christian cannot be privatized. My relationship with God is personal, but it isn’t private. Continue reading
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A Deteriorating Internet
Advertising becomes more aggressive. User data is harvested more thoroughly. Algorithms are introduced not to foster understanding, but to prolong engagement. What was once delightful becomes tedious. Continue reading
Raymond Klassen - Ideals and Identities 