Gone are the days of the Renaissance Man; The polymath ideal of humanism; Man is the center of the universe and he should embrace the search for all knowledge because man alone has the limitless capacity for development!
Alberti, the architect, …
Would Kant really support BLM?
Poor old Immanuel Kant, scourge of many an undergraduate essay crisis, whose 300th birthday fell this week. Was ever any other major intellectual figure put through so much painful contemporary “rethinking”?
According to the late political theorist Charles W. Mills, …
The enlightened case for being selfish
Ever since the events of October 7, the streets of American and Western cities are routinely filled with heated demonstrations. The vast majority of the people in attendance are usually not themselves citizens of Palestine or Israel, but locals whose …
A Coup Without Firing a Shot
The last few years can be tracked at two levels: the physical reality around us and the realm of the intellectual, mental, and psychological.
The first level has presented a chaotic narrative of the previously unthinkable. A killer virus that …
We’ve Forgotten Kant’s Moral Lesson
In the 18th century Immanuel Kant – arguably the most important philosopher of the historical European Enlightenment – gave us what is known as a ‘deontological (duty-oriented)’ moral philosophy, as opposed to, for example, a ‘consequentialist’ variety, or one that …
The extinction of the political animal
For the past few years, scientists have warned that a human-driven mass extinction of animal species has begun. The focus falls mostly upon land-dwelling vertebrates, but fails to mention one critically endangered species: homo politicus, threatened on all sides by …
A Devil’s New American Lexicon
In 1942, C.S. Lewis published The Screwtape Letters, in which Screwtape, a devil, mentored his nephew Wormwood on how to manage his patient, so as to serve their common spiritual master. Screwtape advised: “Jargon, not argument, is your best ally …
The Bison Advantage
They say that bison are the only animals that purposefully walk into a storm rather than drifting with the wind because they know that doing so will get them through it faster.
I often think about the decision I made …
The WHO’s Road to Totalitarianism
Several articles on the proposed amendments to the WHO’s international health regulations have appeared here on Brownstone, such as this excellent introduction. Consequently, there is no need to repeat this information in a similar format. What I would like to …
Hate the Bad, Love the Good
Brace yourself, dear reader, for a statement that will be punished severely by most of the social media landscape and may even be considered a “hate crime” in some jurisdictions:
Richard Levine is a bad man.
In fact, I have …
We Must Resist the Grey Men
In the summer of 2020, at the height of the Covid restrictions, when my head was still reeling from the acute shock of such unprecedented societal betrayal, I did what I always do — and what countless misfits and bookworms …
Consequences of the Wrong Worldview
“The Grand Narrative of our society is the story of mechanistic science; a story in which man is reduced to a biological ‘organism’. A story that also completely ignores the psychological and symbolic dimension of the human being. This view …
Medical Leadership Cannot Escape the ‘Misinformation’ Trap
On March 25, 2024, the online Medpage Today published an article written by the Presidents of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. In it, they make the claim that:
Online misinformation about vaccines harm (sic) patients, …
Public Health & Natural Rights: A Tale of Two Cities
One cannot inject a healthy child from the day of birth and believe in the natural rights of the individual.
If the basic functioning of the nature we as humans are born with is so flawed that we need repeated …
Only Our Attention is Eternal
Fifty-four years ago, the English artist and writer John Berger recorded a four-part series for BBC television called Ways of Seeing that achieved instant critical and popular acclaim, so much so that its key arguments were compiled into a best-selling …
