Culture & Identity
Six Pieces by GUSKY
A series of evocative pieces by the internationally acclaimed American artist, Gusky.
Topic
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
On solitude, clarity, and the world as it withdraws.
Philosophy & Ethics
Does God cause the grass to grow?
Is it truly God that causes the grass to grow? Is not the growth of such grass fully explained by science? If matter provides a sufficient explanation, how can God be regarded as the cause?
Literature & Poetry
Black Box
A short fiction piece about a girl, a girl, a hallway, a kitchen, and perhaps another glass of wine.
Culture & Identity
The Deconstruction Construction Project; Documented
As humans, we are drawn towards what is familiar and safe; we desperately claw at comfort and reject discomfort. But what happens to us when we are completely out of our element?
Philosophy & Ethics
Love, fairness and the problem of value
This essay is primarily concerned with love as a moral action between two volitions. It is critical of the instrumental view of reality adopted in contemporary conceptions of economics, and utilitarian ethics.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
That Fairness is a Quality of Love
Fairness is the quality of love that does not subjectify or objectify but enfolds as the father did his prodigal son. In it is the love that radiates and the love that soothes, the love that comes from the ocean and the sun
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
The Ascension, and Will of Heaven
We have a moral prerogative, an instillation within our nature, a call of destiny, that those of us, those of us with ability–or with the impetus to seek to become capable–must thoroughly transform and be the bedrock and foundation of our culture.