Morbid Curiosity
Philip WalfordEssays on culture, faith, history and other things that refuse to stay dead.
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AI Sex Cults and Stupid Hats
AI has a sex cult problem. That is an odd sentence to write, but the evidence is pretty undeniable, at least if truth is measured by how many articles were written about SlutCon last month. For the uninitiated, a large chunk of the culture...
The Death of the Comeback
At the age of forty-seven, I’m now much too old to participate in memes. Which is fine because I never liked them much.
As a rule, I have always preferred to not join in. Much of my early childhood I now remember as a series of school play...
Is Everyone Catholic Now?
When I left the Catholic Church (which is a dramatic way of describing something as simple as not getting up early one Sunday) my mother responded by pouring a bucket of water over me as I lay in bed. I was nineteen, back from my first term...
Close Reading
Since January 2025, I’ve written about Byron, Wagner, Mark Fisher, Cormac McCarthy, Stanley Kubrick and early 2000s web comics, to name a few. From this list you might conclude that my media consumption is basically that of a typical middle...
A Newer World
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
The words come from Tennyson rather than Homer, but as a summary of what we’ve distilled from three thousand years of The Odyssey, they work pretty well. We revere it as a story of travel and...
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