by David John Seel, Jr., Ph.D. | Jun 4, 2026 | New Adam Project
Just as there is soft pornography, there is also soft nihilism. Sociologist James Davison Hunter once observed that America has become “a nihilist culture without nihilists.” Most Americans could not define nihilism. Few have read Friedrich Nietzsche, its great...
by David John Seel, Jr., Ph.D. | Apr 2, 2026 | New Adam Project
“There is no more potent tool for rupture than the reconstruction of genesis: by bringing back into view the conflicts and confrontations of the early beginnings and therefore all the discarded possibilities, it retrieves the possibility that things could have...
by David John Seel, Jr., Ph.D. | Mar 27, 2026 | New Adam Project
As a cultural analyst, I rarely find myself praising contemporary film or television. That is not because good storytelling is impossible today, but because it is increasingly rare. Which is why Taylor Sheridan’s new series The Madison deserves attention....
by David John Seel, Jr., Ph.D. | Mar 21, 2026 | New Adam Project
We are living through a leadership crisis, but not for the reasons most commentators suggest. The problem is not simply political polarization, institutional distrust, technological disruption, or economic uncertainty—though all are real. The deeper problem is that we...
by David John Seel, Jr., Ph.D. | Jan 3, 2026 | New Adam Project
Former Senator Ben Sasse wrote recently, “Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and I am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too—we all do.” That...
