Natural law Enlightenment style Every proponent of natural law will reject the title above: natural law is ancient (that is when it arose) and timeless (that is how it applies).…
Two Cultures, 2 | The 'Maddening' Notion of the ‘Happy Wife’ My focus today is simply the title of this New York Times fiction review: Happy Wife, Happy Life, and…
Two Cultures, 1 | Bad people Peggy Orenstein, in her latest book, finds that young men, although aware of the excesses of masculinity, are still treating women with disrespect and…
Solomon & Socrates The great figure of Socrates (you'll get no irony from me on this point) is known largely for one thing. In philosophy he is famous for his…
The standard idea that colleges were proto-universities (early, simpler versions of the same thing) that underwent an expected “transition” is false, say historians. What actually took place was “a pronounced transformation” involving a “general collapse” of a primary institution of conservatism (in the simple sense of the ambition to preserve the central goods of our society).
Why philosophy (taught the normal way) is dogmatic Simply ask, why is the New Testament not included among the texts of Philosophy courses, though it addresses philosophical questions? Anyone speaking…