Why Is Reason Controversial?
Reason, again, is solely directed to the attainment of truth, and careless of money and reputation. In accordance with the difference of men’s natures, one of these three principles is…
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The Importance of Taking Personal Responsibility for One’s Mental Health
Following the recent death of a popular British personality by suicide, there has been an outpouring of emotion on social media. Alongside tributes from the public and celebrities—often captioned with…
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Does Secularism Lead to Racism? A Review of “Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race and Civilization, 1850–1914” by Nathan G. Alexander
Towards the end of his recent book on atheism and racism, Nathan G. Alexander argues that our understanding of the American black civil rights movement is obscured by the towering…
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How Critical Theory Came to Be Skeptical of Science
In the introduction to Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer write: When public opinion has reached a state in which thought inevitably (emphasis mine) becomes a commodity, and language the…
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A Blue Sky Vision for Social Media
On 11 December 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced, via the social media platform itself, that Twitter would be funding an independent team of researchers, to develop an open standard…
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Nathan J. Robinson’s “Why You Should Be A Socialist.” A Conservative Review
Sun Tzu, the fifth century BC Chinese military tactician, allegedly once said: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.…
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Five Competing Conceptions of the Self and Why They Matter
According to Pausanias, inscribed above the temple to Apollo at Delphi were the wise words Know Thyself. This injunction has been referenced by everyone from Plato to the oracle in…
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Carl Jung Was Not a Mystic
Carl Jung is one of the most misunderstood thinkers of the twentieth century. This is partly his own fault. While Jung’s teacher, Sigmund Freud, dismissed religious ideas as the expression…
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The Death of Comedy
Sanitation departments aren’t usually controversial. New York City’s sanitation department’s Twitter account is full of zero-waste tips, charity work, and employees rescuing kittens. What does it take to make a…
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New Evidence Questions Whether “13 Reasons Why” Caused an Increase in Teen Suicides
Since its release on 31 March 2017, the television show 13 Reasons Why, which features the graphic suicide of a teenage girl, has been the source of controversy as to…
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Bureaucrats: The New Aristocracy
Speculations over the possible existence of a bureaucratic deep state are the latest manifestation of a very old way of looking at power politics, using a framework that divides political…
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Understanding Conservative Anti-Capitalism
There’s recently been an unexpected growth of anti-capitalist sentiment in conservative circles. The relationship between capitalism and conservatism is not as harmonious as many suppose. Conservatives embraced libertarian economics largely…
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The Ten Books Every Leftist Should Know: A Reply to Dennis Prager
In a 4 January column for the Daily Wire, Dennis Prager, talk show host and founder of the partisan YouTube channel Prager U, opines that it is often very difficult…
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An Ode To The Ghost Rider: Neil Peart’s Journey Reaches An End
We are strangers to each other Full of sliding panels An illusion show Acting well-rehearsed routines Or playing from the heart? It’s hard for one to know We are islands…
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Why Civil Partnerships are Sacred to Progressives
In October 2014, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan entered Chelsea Town Hall in London, to form a civil partnership. But, as a mixed-sex couple, they were refused. Although the Marriage…
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India’s Descent into Authoritarianism
Democratic breakdown doesn’t need a blueprint. It can be the result of a sequence of unanticipated events—an escalating tit-for-tat between a demagogic, norm-breaking leader and a threatened political establishment. The…
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Raising an Athenian
What can we learn about child-rearing from the ancient Greeks and Spartans? I teach seventh grade ancient civilizations and one of our most popular topics is ancient Greece. The students…
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In Defence of Ideology
The term ideological is often slung about as if it were an insult. It typically implies that a person is set in her ways, or dogmatic. It also implies that…
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