Truth-speaking (or truth-telling) is not the same as truth. At least not in the familiar sense of a correspondence between what is stated and the state of affairs to which it corresponds – the so-called correspondence theory of truth. Or, …
The Social Meaning of Hortatory Yard Signs
They’re difficult to miss, especially if you live near a well-to-do neighborhood in or near a US city. I’m talking, of course, about those lawn signs that, using various symbols and slogans, announce to all and sundry that the residents …
Stuck to Our Own Metaphors
Though we don’t often think about it, we live and act quite frequently on the basis of metaphors. And that is for a very good reason. The realities of the world around us are far too vast and complex for …
The Covid Narrative Flunked the Critical Thinking Test
At the height of the Covid hysteria, several times I encountered variations of the meme “It’s not a pandemic; it’s an IQ test.” Probably the memesters were poking fun at those duped by the mainstream Covid messaging.
In any case, …
Can paedophilia ever be a thought experiment?
Imagine that a philosophy professor is invited onto a podcast. The hosts ask him to describe a thought experiment he finds interesting or provoking. He decides to pick a scenario in which an adult male has sex with a “willing” …
Adam Smith Vs. the Great Reset
Kind hosts in Vienna asked me to speak on Adam Smith, this year being 300 years since his birth in 1723. The lecture was arranged by The Hayek Institute and the Austrian Economics Center, in Vienna, delivered June 26, 2023. …
No One Apologizes for the Theft of Time
In the ending comments box of the latest small business survey I received through email from the Census Bureau, I wrote, “One of the ongoing irritations from government is the uncaring and unrepentant theft of time. These surveys are a …
Feminism and Its Betrayal
I’m a feminist. I have no problem with this “F” word and never have.
There have always been women who rejected the label. When I was a college student in the late 80s-early 90s, some women rejected the word and …
Emulating Odysseus Today
The epic poem known as the Odyssey, or Homer’s story of Odysseus, the ancient Greek king of Ithaca, who was cursed by the god of the sea, Poseidon, to wander for 10 years before returning home after the fall of …
How Young Adult Literature Became the Playground, and Battleground, for Adults
On a warm spring day roughly ten years ago, back when we still did such things, I caught a city bus to my office in downtown Minneapolis. It was a pleasant early morning ride, windows open, the people unusually quiet. …
“The people” will not save us | Chris Waldburger
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Chris Waldburger discuss why ‘voting harder’ will not prevent another Covid event and why liberal democracy cannot stave off the bio-security state. What, then, is to be done?
Chris attempted to criticize a modern …
The Dignity of Labor Requires Freedom and Truth
As I celebrated Mass for our parish on the morning of Labor Day, I was struck by the Gospel which coincidentally was given to be read for Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary time: Luke 4:16-30. Here we see …
Beware the new leviathans
Are men and women naturally good? The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought so, though he admits that we began in a state of “savagery” in which moral terms such as good and bad simply didn’t apply. From there, however, the human …
The four thinkers who took on the mob
What is the formative connection between the private self and other people? Or, as the architect of libertarianism Ayn Rand once put it, how should we order “the two principles fighting within human consciousness — the individual and the collective, …
In defence of critical theory
If you’ve been watching the latest pitched battles in America’s culture wars, you’ve doubtless heard of the much-ballyhooed and much-denounced field of critical race theory. One thing you may not have gleaned from all the media furore, though, is that …