The Emptiness and Transience of Life In despair, seeing all his plots unravelling, his machinations brought to nothing, Shakespeare's...

Habituation vs Homelessness This essay was provoked by contemplating Martin Buber’s analysis of the way that 'epochs of habitation'...

Reason, Freedom, and God “Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Hence the critic can take his cue from every...

The reason people get angry when they hear a contrary view is that, deep down, they suspect that that view may be right. The main reason...

The Existential Self-Hatred that Consumes the World Or, The Egoism that Eats God and Feeds Gods The main focus of this essay is the need...

This is a post for those who think that religion lies behind the geopolitical conflicts of the world. I write in response to those...

Review of a new book that highlights themes that are central to my work. Nominalism, Nihilism, and Modern Politics By Matthew Barry “In...

One of the many perils and pitfalls of social media is that you have to suffer the company of self-important know-all know-nothing bigots...

To live in truth and in love. Jordan Peterson pulls Christianity out of Sam Harris' reductionist hat There are plenty of people on...

https://pcritchley2.wixsite.com/beingandplace/post/redeeming-empty-promises Looking for the Heart of the Heartless World "Identity...

The founder of BLM became a fraudulent brand after buying a $ 1.4 million home Marxist BLM leader buys $1.4 million home in ritzy LA...

“Rovelli is convinced we must work together. “Co-operation is better than competition,” he says. “Physics has reinforced the fact that we...

Dante’s Politics of Love In 2016 I started to write on the internal music in Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, under the title of Dante’s Sweet...

I'm a 'something more' person. I wouldn't want to say exactly what that more is, and give the impression of certainty and concreteness...

“Listen to me. Postmodernism will be appropriated by reactionary conservatives to destabilize commonly-held notions of evidence....

I was once involved in a debate between atheists and theists. Unfortunately, it was that kind of debate in which the people with the...

‘Conspirituality’ refers to the over-lap between New Age / wellness culture and conspiracy culture. I would like to comment on issues...

More thoughts on Dante. I am working and thinking hard on the book that is in the process of emergence. There is a lot of reading to do,...

Dante incurred great intellectual risks in expressing himself in concrete terms comprehensible to uneducated minds, but these risks had...

Seeing the Light “I wish, that I could really tell you, All the things that happened to me And all that I have seen, A world full of...