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A Conversation on the Making of Rajah Versus Conquistador

Gabi Francisco and Kahlil Corazo on Intuition, Serendipity, and the Strange Journey of Making a First Novel

Nov 14 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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Quezon, Shogun, and Rajah Humabon

Storytellers grappling with power

Nov 8 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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What A Time To be a Cebu Music Fan

Cebu Music from '90s Rock and Reggae to Bisrock and Vispop, plus (inevitably) some language politics.

Nov 4 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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October 2025

Things Hidden Since 1521 (Frankfurt Book Fair Talk Practice Run)

Novel-writing as ethnography of precolonial Philippines

Oct 9 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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7

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August 2025

René Girard x David Deutsch

A conversation with Micah Redding and Max Schultz

Aug 27 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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Micah Redding

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Mimesis and Infinity

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Toy Essay: Why I Gave My Novel a Fictional Academic Afterword

When I was around ten, I played with LEGO so intensely that my dad once boiled the bricks in a pot of water when I would not come down for lunch.

Aug 15 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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In Defense of René Girard's "Apostasy"

Resolving the Girardian Civil War of Sacrifice Through David Bentley Hart

Aug 11 • 

Kahlil Corazo

2

Why Postmodernist Ethnographers Become Self-Flagellating Propagandists

The preprint article "To Write or Not to Write?

Aug 7 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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July 2025

In Defense of Peter Thiel's Anti-Sacrificial Tech Optimism

Introducing a cognitive bias: the "sacrificial fallacy"

Jul 15 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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"The West" Is a Terrible Name but a Great Invention

Explanations from David Deutsch and René Girard

Jul 6 • 

Kahlil Corazo

6

13

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June 2025

Why We Sacrifice: Darwinian, Functionalist, and Semiotic Perspectives

Recorded at the 2025 Colloquium on Violence and Religion

Jun 21 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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Salvation for Flannery O'Connor's Psychopath

I recently had a coffee flight in Toma, one of Madrid's pioneers in specialty coffee.

Jun 18 • 

Kahlil Corazo

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