Bruna Frascolla
Strategic Culture Foundation

The entire current scientific establishment probably rests on cohesive dogmas of a metaphysical nature.

Amid the avalanche of noteworthy things relating to Jeffrey Epstein, I wanted to draw attention to a very atypical combination: rigorous religiosity and militant atheism.

The religiosity appears in its most extravagant form with Epstein’s idea of funding the development of a cloven-hoofed pig – a genetically modified kosher pig – so that he could eat bacon. The attempt to circumvent divine prohibitions is far from exceptional in Talmudic Judaism (the most prosaic example is the use of wigs to cover women’s hair). It causes some amazement that a terrible criminal could be a very religious person, since we are faced with the possibility that his religion is more concerned with dietary restrictions than with moral restrictions. But this is also old news. Since virtually no one knows the Talmud without being a religious Jew capable of reading Hebrew, I recommend reading the indispensable Jewish History, Jewish Religion, by Israel Shahak, which exposes the immorality and racial supremacism intrinsic to the Talmud. It does not follow from this that every religious Jew is a bad person, but rather that, if he is a good person, it is by natural inclination and influence of the culture in which he is embedded, not by the Talmud (of which Epstein displayed dozens of volumes on his bookshelf).

As for militant atheism, a photo was released showing Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Steven Pinker together in the Lolita Express. That is, two of the “four horsemen of neo-atheism” (Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens, who died in 2011), plus the Harvard atheist Jew Steven Pinker, who weaves scientific praises to the moral progress of our times. Furthermore, information was released that a club of atheists who consider themselves genius scientists (of which Sam Harris is a member) relied on Epstein’s philanthropy. The club is called Edge.org. A religious person funding atheists who are certain that people who believe in God are stupid? How strange!

Bruna Frascolla
Strategic Culture Foundation

The most surprising thing about this whole story is that the cover of Hobbes’ magnum opus already gave it all away.

This week, I came across a news story titled “Satanic Temple Opens Abortion Clinic in Maine, Tells Women to Do Evil Chants Celebrating Killing Babies”. The story has a goat with a pentagram as an illustration, and is from a pro-life website called Life News. In the past, I would read such a headline and think it was an fabrication by that kind of evangelical who claims that there are satanic chants in a lot of pop songs when listened to backwards. But this is 2025, the year in which it is unscientific and criminal to say that women do not have penises.

The story on the thematic website uses as its source a story from a local news website in Maine. There, we get to the bureaucracy of the matter: there is a Satanist temple in Salem, Massachusetts, which in 2019 managed to register with the IRS as an exempt religious entity. In fact, if all religions are equal before the liberal state, discriminating against Satanists would be an injustice. The name of this distinguished entity is The Satanic Temple, abbreviated as TST.

Just as churches have philanthropic hospitals, TST has TST Health, which “provides free religious telehealth medication abortion care”. Unfortunately, I know what the tele-abortion part is.

Bruna Frascolla
Strategic Culture Foundation

In Biden’s America, one would answer without hesitation that women have penises, but you never know.

According to all scientific authorities in botany, a tomato is, without a shadow of a doubt, a fruit. However, in 1893, the United States Supreme Court handed down the decision Nix v. Heden, according to which a tomato, in the context of a tariff law, is not a fruit, but a vegetable. This is a curious choice of words, because the Supreme Court did not decide that the tomato, although a fruit, should be considered a vegetable in a given context; instead, it decided that the tomato is a fruit in law, because the law is made according to ordinary language, which is different from botany. It is very strange, this idea that the Supreme Court legislates on reality, but that is how it works in the most powerful country in the world, an heir to the English Common Law.

The case of tomato in the USA is similar to that of women in Great Britain. On April 16, 2025, in response to the interpretation of a law on gender equality, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that women are those of the female sex, excluding from the concept “trans women” who hold female documents. Since then, British feminists and conservatives have celebrated the new definition. Thus, women in Great Britain no longer have penises.