A.D. 454 The City is dark, the sky, dark. It seems like it’s been dark for years. Heavy black clouds moving with tectonic slowness above the Republic for years and years. See the marble buildings turning green, the bronze statuary and trim around them turning verdigris. Everything growing dimmer, everything…

The Awards are one of the first truly effective means of vaccine advocacy — The Herman Cain Awards (HCA) are literally saving lives. It would be a legitimate blow to public health to shut them down or otherwise hamper their distribution. I think criticism of the HCAs might only make them more effective, and so I might go so far as to welcome more…

Qanon as a modern esoteric tradition — The purpose of this brief note will be to enumerate in no particular order significant similarities between QAnon and a variety of Western esoteric traditions — especially those that flourished in the Late Antique period, a time ripe with weirdo weltanschauungen. The main reason I am writing this in such…

Chs. 4–6 IV. I Get Diagnosed with Cancer It is February 14th, 2019 and I am walking up and down the handicap access hallway-ramp that leads to the handicap access door on the side of the building I work in, the easiest entryway to where my office is located. I…

“Loo-Can Mag” — LVCAN MAG is a publication found only right here, on Medium. It is a personal project and in no way a business. It used to be called FORVM. It seeks to publish quality pieces of criticism, commentary, philosophy, history, fiction — and more. Basically everything except commercial or business writing…

Philosophy, criticism, fiction. Good taste — LVCAN MAG used to be called FORVM; it’s been on Medium for a while and is undergoing a relaunch, hence the new name. This other article is basically our About Us page, explaining our editorial philosophy and goals. The article you’re reading is the more workmanlike Submissions Instructions page. Some…

America Needs To Stop Reacting To Coronavirus Like A Bunch Of Hysterics — a Retort — The beginning of this essay is misleading. And I don’t mean in the expected way, I suppose —I don’t mean that the author bends or colors the facts too much. She does do this, too, albeit minutely; but on the whole she is basically unadorned in her reporting of the…

Black Lives Matter In Public Schools Is Turning Kids Into Little Marxists— a Retort — When you make a passtime out of cleverly rebutting bad takes from the Right, you really have to just smack your chops at a title like this. New York City is one of many school systems in the United States set to roll out Black Lives Matter (BLM)-themed lesson plans…

“As The Left Storms The Ramparts, What Are You Prepared To Do About It?” — A Retort — The left’s rout is on. Its foot soldiers are swarming every level of society. This is not what a rout is. Nonetheless this opening line is very fitting: in using a military metaphor in a way that is completely, almost precisely wrong, the author makes us intimate with the mix…