A Quick Word on How Social Media is Rewiring the Democratic Ganglion
All major political epochs have their corresponding media epochs: the reformation and the printing press, the nation state and the broadsheet newspaper, nationalism and the pamphlet. We now find...
View ArticleFemininity and the Emasculation of Western Politics
In the past, proponents of equality resisted caricatures of the sexes and encouraged resistance to stereotypical perceptions of masculinity and femininity.
View ArticleNaked, Shivering Creatures: A Look Behind Burke’s “Pleasing Illusions”
Burke argues that life without such prejudice is brutish and crude. Sans prejudice we would be left with nothing but our “naked shivering nature,” alone and afraid.
View ArticleRacist Ideas, Justice, and Freedom: A Review and Reflection on Ibram Kendi’s...
Stamped From the Beginning is filled with implications for political theory, both regarding distributive justice, and how we conceptualize freedom, showing limits to the typical bifurcation of freedom...
View ArticleHeidegger, Metaphysics, and Wheelbarrows: A Poetic Introduction to...
By: Richard Oxenberg so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickensWilliam Carlos Williams In order to appreciate Heidegger’s thought it is necessary to see it...
View ArticleCultural Anglicanism: A Pleasing Illusion
By: Glen Paul Hammond The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.G.K. Chesterton Sonia Maria Pavel, in her recent article on Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in...
View ArticleFaith vs. Reason?
By: Hendrik van der Breggen For some people, the relationship between faith and reason is like oil and water—they don’t mix. On this view, religious beliefs cannot and should not be subject to rational...
View ArticleWhat Is Truth?: On the Need for an Old Paradigm
By: Richard Oxenberg I. Introduction: What Is Truth? In the Gospel of John, Jesus says to Pontius Pilate: “I was born and came into the world to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth...
View ArticleAgainst Term Limits
Guillaume LeBlanc from New American Perspective takes issue with President Trump's suggestion of adding Congressional term limits.
View ArticleThe Worth of a State: Tribalism versus Individuality
Man’s commonest weakness, [is] his aversion to being unpleasantly conspicuous, pointed at, shunned, as being on the unpopular side.
View ArticleOn the Precipice
Like many others, I sometimes feel paralyzed by the enormity of the environmental challenge. How to break through this?
View ArticleJust War Theory
Ryan Jenkins from 1000-Word Philosophy gives an account of just war theory. War is a profoundly destructive institution, yet most of us still believe there are good wars. Authors as far back as Cicero,...
View ArticleCapsule Introduction to Capitalism and Socialism
Socialism arose historically as a response to capitalism. Its point of departure is the contention that capital is a social product—the fruit of countless hours/days/years of labor expended by hundreds...
View ArticlePopulism: The Long Con
Populism is an old trick. It’s been around since the earliest democracies. Plato, Aristotle and all the classical thinkers wrote about it and rightly condemned it, understanding that it would naturally...
View ArticleLicensing Parents
Ryan Jenkins from 1000-Word Philosophy examines the potential worth in licensing parents. Most people think it’s obvious that we have a right to procreate and raise children. In fact, many people think...
View ArticleCatabolic Capitalism: The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
In a growth-less economy, the profit motive can have a powerful catabolic impact on society. The word "catabolism" comes from the Greek and is used in biology to refer to the condition whereby a living...
View ArticleCatabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance
Globalization and capitalist growth are powered by abundant fossil fuels. As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust. But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like,...
View ArticleResponding to Morally Flawed Historical Philosophers and Philosophies
Victor Fabian Abundez-Guerra and Nathan Nobis from 1000-Word Philosophy examine the difficult issue of how to deal with the objectionable moral views of past philosophers. Many historically-influential...
View ArticleWholesale Crimes
by Victor Wallis In their 1979 book The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam Chomsky and the late Edward S. Herman drew a distinction between retail and wholesale acts of terrorism....
View ArticleMuch Is Lost
By: Hendrik van der Breggen At the beginning of the film Lord of the Rings, as forces of darkness gather strength, Lady Galadriel whispers sadly: “The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel...
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