Boreas Podcast
Mimetic theory takes on everything.
Boreas Podcast
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Newton vs Athanasius Part II: Athanasius
In Part I we saw Newton's anti-Trinitarianism and his science as a single revolution, opposed to the idea that divine form can enter matter and restructure it from within. This week, the counter-argument. We turn to the man in the opposing corn...
Newton vs Athanasius Part I: Newton
Most people know Isaac Newton as the father of modern science. Fewer know that two thirds of his written output was on alchemy and theology — and that he kept it secret because it would have gotten him hanged. This week I read my essay Newton C...
Hidden Grammar: Shakespeare, Joyce, and Girard
William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and René Girard walk into a bar... And share a secret: the price of literary genius is the torment of mimetic cuckoldry, resolved through a type of repentance. I talk about how Girard found this sec...
Quebec: The Original White Minority
My French-Canadian friend Martin joins me to discuss the history of Quebec. Discover how this province, once the stronghold of French Catholic conservatism, underwent a rapid secular revolution in the 1960s. What role did the Catholic Church an...
Sex, Power, and Bill Clinton
Why did Bill Clinton survive the Lewinsky scandal? Not because of legal technicalities or partisan loyalty. Because he understood something about power that most people still don't: a nation addicted to sexual liberation cannot condemn its pres...