Paganism
Column: Look Up to the Skies and See
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How can city-dwelling Heathens bring back the old sense of wonder when gazing upwards? How can we reenchant the post-post-postmodern skies in this third decade of the 21st century?
Paganism
Opinion: A Ragnarök of One’s Own
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Karl E.H. Seigfried considers fanaticism, critical thinking, and over-identification in modern political thought through the lens of Stravinsky’s experience of seeing Wagner’s “Parzifal” a century ago.
Arts & Culture
Column: Finding Reverie in the Met’s “Wagner Week”
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Weekend editor Eric O. Scott partakes in the New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Wagner Week” of opera streams, and loses himself in the dream of Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Paganism
Column: Loki and Dionysos
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“Have I been understood? Dionysus against the Crucified!” —Nietzsche, final line of Ecce Homo
On Jan. 3, 1889, Nietzsche witnessed a horse being whipped in the streets of Turin, Italy. He embraced the horse and collapsed to the ground, and was subsequently accosted by two policemen.
Paganism
Column: On Hammers and Other Worlds
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I come from carpenters. I’m not sure I would call it a family profession – more like the results of a long line of bull-headed men who couldn’t stand more than a few years of answering to a boss. Eventually, we all quit or got fired, picked up some tools, and starting putting up fences and building porches. We’ve never been the type to get certifications. My grandfather, even now, prefers to conduct as much of his business as possible in cash, a habit developed over decades of being paid under the table.