Russell Kirk’s short story “Ex Tenebris” (Latin for “out of darkness”), first published in 1957, is a chilling ghostly tale set in the decaying English village of Low Wentford. The narrative centers on the last remaining resident, the elderly Mrs. Oliver, who clings to her humble cottage amid a landscape ravaged by war, economic decline, and modern “progress.” Once a thriving community tied to the Ogham family estate, the area has been depopulated as farms are sold off, villagers migrate to industrial mills, and the land falls under bureaucratic control. A government planning officer, S.G.W. Barner, embodies the cold utilitarianism…

David Gornoski sits down with Dr. Stewart Tankersley for a powerful and eye-opening conversation on euthanasia in Canada — a topic shaking the moral foundations of modern medicine and society itself.What does it mean when a culture begins to see death as “treatment”? How far has Canada gone, and what can we learn from their experiment in state-sanctioned mercy killing? Dr. Tankersley brings his deep medical insight and moral clarity to a discussion that every thinking person needs to hear.💡 This isn’t just about policy — it’s about the soul of a society.🎧 Tune in for a conversation that challenges,…

René Girard revealed one of the most haunting truths about human nature: our desires are not born within us—they are borrowed. We imitate what others value, often without realizing it, and this cycle of mimetic desire binds culture together even as it can tear it apart. Nowhere is this paradox clearer than in the phenomenon of oikophobia—the fear, rejection, or contempt for one’s own home, culture, or civilization.The term oikophobia comes from the Greek oîkos (home) and phóbos (fear). Once used by poet Robert Southey in 1808 to describe wanderlust—the yearning to flee familiar comforts—it was revived centuries later by…