Liminalchris

The Contingent God: History, Gravity, and the Roads Not Taken Frank Herbert understood something that most political philosophers never reached. Not because he was a better philosopher — he wasn't, particularly — but because he was writing about a mechanism rather than arguing for a position, and that changes what...

The Trap of Historical Inevitability History has a dangerous way of presenting itself as a river with a single channel. We look at the great ruptures—the systemic convulsions that bend civilizational trajectories—and in retrospect, we treat them as geological events. We speak of Caesar, Louverture, Lenin, or Hitler as if...