Essays – Ships of Hagoth

Essays

Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.

On Amalakiah, D&C 121, and Robert A. Caro’s “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York”

Peter Woodrow April 17, 2026

To seek not for power, but to pull it down.

Of 6-7, Skibidi, and Dadaism

Marion Hall April 10, 2026

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

On Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise in the Latter Days

Israel Carver April 7, 2026

For a certain subset of younger Gen Xers and older Millennials, the opening riff to Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise”—from his 1976 magnum opus Songs in

Waiting for the Sun, by The Doors [Annotated Readings]

Kenneth Dwight April 3, 2026

An Easter hymn, “Now that Spring has come…”

Of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship and John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Spencer Antolini March 28, 2026

On the only obedience worth exercising in ages of authoritarianism.

Brief Notes on Abraham 1, The Binding of Isaac, and The Book of Mormon

Michael Fisher March 22, 2026

Or perhaps more precisely, on the curious lack of Abraham and Isaac in the keystone of our religion.

The Sickbed of Cúchulainn, by The Pogues [Annotated Readings]

Jacob Bender March 15, 2026

For your St. Patrick’s Day in yet another time of unjust war and history repeating itself.

On Metallica’s “Don’t Tread On Me” and West Side Story’s “America”

Tim Wilkinson March 8, 2026

Or, the Mahan Principle in both immigration and war-mongering.

Enjoy the Silence, by Depeche Mode [Annotated Readings]

Hagoth March 1, 2026

Words are very, unnecessary/They can only do harm.

Island of the Honest Man, by Hot Hot Heat [Annotated Readings]

John Beloved February 25, 2026

The opposite of “the love of many shall wax cold” would indeed be “Hot Hot Heat”, come to think of it.

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