John C. Wright's Journal

From the invaluable Bill Whittle My comment: I have always wondered why, once they know their game is up, the Political Correctionists continue to pretend that they have some sort of moral high ground, intellectual or moral superiority to the rest of us. Only slowly has the realization dawned on me that perhaps they cannot [...]

Imagine being a science fiction writer circa 1940 or 1950, and selling to John W Campbell Jr your fictional visions of a future that all right thinking people scoffed at. Then, starting with Kennedy, the Space Race culminates in the Moonshot. The Eagle has landed, and the footprints of Man mark the impossible airless sands [...]

Let me propose a rather long essay and a slightly droll theory: The aliens behind the Monolith in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY are the same as the aliens signaling from Vega in Carl Sagan’s CONTACT. They both are part of the Galactic Overmind seeking the evolutionary transcendence of all life, and to elevate [...]

If there are any readers, Mormon or otherwise, who fret that serious and sober debate seen in this space in weeks erenow with Mormons over theological questions will dim my high opinion of the LDS Church, I ask you not to fret. Let me tell you my experience with Mormons. Once upon a time, my [...]

For those of you who have forgotten, or who were never aware, today is a national day of penance and prayer for the besetting sin of our nation, the atrocity called abortion. In all the dioceses of the United States of America, January 22 (or January 23, when January 22 falls on a Sunday) shall [...]

From the Atlantic. For those of you who believe that technological progress cannot exist in the Dark Age, I will point to the following paragraph. We are in a Dark Ages now. He is another exhibit in the case: Last May, Stephen Hawking gave a talk at Google’s Zeitgeist Conference in which he declared philosophy [...]

The First Amendment now has been interpreted to mean that we churches, missions, lay orders, religious groups and non-profit corporations offering health care insurance to our employees, now have an additional year to comply with federal regulations issued by unelected bureaucrats requiring that we violate our deeply held religious principles. I kid you not. A [...]

A while back I wrote a humor piece on the appeal of High Fantasy versus Sword and Sorcery, where I opined that no one has a real taste for High Fantasy who does not think the modern age has lost something precious. To my bewilderment, I was savagely criticized for this innocuous comment. Inquiry to [...]

This question from the reader mentioned in my last post was so odd, and was based on such an odd assumption, that I wrote this reader privately and asked: where did you get the idea that science fiction presupposes no eternal verities? Are are reader of science fiction yourself, and this is your conclusion, or [...]

A reader asks: Why do you like science fiction, despite your strong moral positions? Note: this is not a misprint. The reader wrote “despite” in that sentence rather than “due to.” Let us read on. I am an avid reader of your blog; I’ve derived great joy from reading your perspective on things. Even though [...]