Cultural & Civilizational Analysis

Logos Bellator: A Theological-Strategic Prognosis for the Coming Age of Transparent War War, Order, and the Moral Architecture of the Post-Persistent-ISR World Abstract Thesis: Technological omniscience has stripped war of its veils; only moral and spiritual unity can restore equilibrium amid the exposure of all things. Perfect battlefield visibility paradoxically breeds moral blindness, as strategy…

The Third Reconstruction: A Strategic and Spiritual Diagnosis Preface (Introduction). The term “Third Reconstruction” has recently appeared in some circles to describe vast social and cultural shifts affecting the rural, working-class American South.  This analysis explores the claim that an unwritten campaign is unfolding – a “Third Reconstruction” of American life – targeting traditional Southern…

From Federal Republic to Unitary Empire: Post-Civil War Transformation and the Myth of Constitutional Continuity Abstract This thesis examines the transformation of the United States from a federated republic into a de facto centralized empire in the aftermath of the Civil War, and the consequent epistemological dissonance between America’s constitutional mythology and its evolved governance.…

Prologue: The Eclipse of Reason “This book exists not to comfort, but to consecrate… The enemy hears when this book is opened.” (Preface to the War Psalms of the Order) Brethren, We stand in an age where reason itself has been eclipsed. Once, statesmen and generals at least pretended to share a common reality, a…

Introduction: In an age enamored with material explanations and secular myths, we stand to issue a comprehensive interdictum – a stern judgment – against the reigning assumptions of materialism. Modern thought often claims that morality, mind, meaning, and even the cosmos itself can be fully explained by blind evolutionary processes or impersonal scientific laws. Yet,…

The Battle of Anthropologies: Self-authoring vs. Christian Personhood Introduction Our age is not merely debating policies or preferences; it is undergoing a civilizational crisis over what it means to be human. The battles over law, sexuality, technology, and identity are not peripheral cultural skirmishes — they are expressions of a deeper war between rival anthropologies,…

The Cathedral of Crisis: Liturgical Warfare and the Ritual Architecture of State Power Unified Pattern of Elite Narrative Operations Premise: Modern crises are not random or isolated – they form a unified pattern of elite narrative operations. Each event, from domestic standoffs to world wars, serves to shock society, reshape political consensus, consolidate power, and…