philosophy
Journey to the West

The  Constellation Theatre Company has staged many tales of of mythology and fantasy:...

philosophy
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Philosophical Idiot

Before you think I call people names, this comes from the title of a piece about smart...

philosophy
Conservatives For Abolishing The Fact Of Evil

The public personas who pass as conservatives are NOT system builders. We know them as...

higher-education
Throwback Thursday — “In the Hope of Escaping the Miracle”

Despite decades of instruction (some would say "indoctrination") in America's government-r...

manners-and-morals
Throwback Thursday – “A Seasonable Plea for the Liberty of Conscience”

The more things change, the more they stay the same. In the mid-18th century it wasn't jus...

philosophy
Throwback Thursday — “Where Mohammed Was Born No Christian Dares to Enter”

Thanks to fanatical groups like ISIS (or ISIL), much of the Middle East has become a free-...

books
Throwback Thursday: Was Charles Dickens a Socialist?

Not on your life, asseverated G. K. Chesterton, as noted in a Literary Digest article ("Di...

books
Throwback Thursday: The Challenging Arguments of Irving Babbitt’s ‘Democracy and Leadership’

"When studied with any  degree of thoroughness, the economic problem will be found to r...

art
Avenging the Honor of Free Speech

January 7, 2015, will be remembered as the day Islamic terrorists declared war against f...

omniculture
The Decline and Fall of Relativism

Writing today at The American Culture, Mike D'Virgilio makes some good observations about ...

books
Review: ‘Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy’

Leo Strauss was undoubtedly one of the most important political philosophers of the twen...

art
One Path to a Renaissance

FROM THE FOUNTAINHEAD TO THE FUTURE, AND OTHER ESSAYS ON ART AND EXCELLENCE — By Alexan...

philosophy
Book Review: ‘Wrath or Rest’

WRATH OR REST: SAINTS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD — By R. Mark Musser — Advantage Ins...

philosophy
‘Democratic Socialism, the Great Utopia of the Last Few Generations, Is Unachievable’

By Mike Gray The title quote is from F. A. Hayek in his The Road to Serfdom. Over on Rene...

books
Gnostic-in-Chief?

On WorldNetDaily (WND), Ellis Washington shows us how a first-century religious heresy is...

philosophy
‘Why Orthodox Darwinism Demands Atheism’

In his decision in the controversial 2005 Dover Area School District case, a clueless dist...

philosophy
Free Will vs. Determinism and the Unborn

Dominic Statham at CMI calls our attention to a recent NAS paper that trips over the ancie...

philosophy
Are You Sane? You May Soon Be the Only One Who Is

Reuters, a not altogether reliable news agency, reports that the new edition of the Diagno...

people
Reagan v. Obama Smackdown on Socialized Medicine

Well, it's sort of a smackdown, with a dead man exhibiting far more good sense than a livi...

journalism
The Ugly Face of Intolerance—From the “Victims” of Intolerance

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is conducting a summer tour of twenty-three c...

commerce
Milton Friedman, Thou Should’st Be Living at This Hour!

Gary Wolfram, in a commentary on The Business & Media Institute website, notes: Today,...

books
Ten Books for Conservatives (podcast)

From Accuracy in Media, in a podcast Don Irvine talks with Dr. Benjamin Wiker, author of 1...

books
‘Alternating Worlds’—Gary Wolf and the Definition of Humanity

Alternating Worlds by Gary Wolf iUniverse, Inc. ISBN-10: 0-595-34002-4 ISBN-13: 978-059534...

books
A Lesson about the Second Amendment for Young Gun Owners

With My Rifle by My Side: A Second Amendment Lesson by Kimberly Jo Simac, with illustratio...

culture101
‘Avatar’—A “Push for a Return to Neo-pagan Animism/Pantheism”

In his January review of James Cameron's latest effort, "Avatar and the 'New' Evolutionary...

philosophy
DNA, Nature’s God, and America’s Political Freedom

On the Discovery Institute's Evolution News & Views weblog, Stephen C. Meyer unites sc...

culture101
Thoughts for Independence Day (10)

From John Hancock (after signing the Declaration of Independence): There, I guess King Geo...

books
The World of ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’—George Orwell’s Unhappy School Days Writ Large

In a recent article (also available as a podcast), "The Brilliant but Confused Radicali...

culture101
Thoughts for Independence Day (9)

From Ralph Waldo Emerson: America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appea...

culture101
Thoughts for Independence Day (8)

From John Adams: I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as...

culture101
Thoughts for Independence Day (7)

From Benjamin Franklin: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunc...

manners-and-morals
Interesting Culture War Skirmish in NC

A coalition of atheists and secularists in North Carolina claims they want to "unite Ameri...

culture101
Thoughts for Independence Day (6)

From Thomas Paine: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, unde...