Fundamentalism refuses ambivalence and complexity, denying that its doctrine may be modified by the evidence of science, or of the senses, and classifying individuals as wholly good or evil, elect… Read more Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part VII →
The discovery that celebrated apologist Ravi Zacharias was a predatory fraud has occasioned much hand-wringing among the American Church. The lesson most commonly drawn seems to be that individual Christians… Read more Some Men They Follow After →
The conventional wisdom on the political right is that university is now little more than leftist catachesis reliably producing leftist graduates. That left-leaning faculty dominate the American university cannot be… Read more Habits of Liberty: Part V →
Glenn Greenwald rightly says that the “monopolistic” and “anticompetitive entities” of Big Tech have “engage[d] in anti-trust illegalities to destroy rising competitors” such as Parler, whose “destruction preserves the unchallengeable… Read more Habits of Liberty: Part IV →
In April, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation facilitating the removal of Confederate monuments, nattering the while: “These monuments tell a particular version of history that doesn’t include everyone. In… Read more Religion, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, BLM: Part VI →
I read someplace, years ago, that the object of science is, laboriously and at great expense, to confirm the commonplace. Here’s my favorite illustration: Shakespeare gave us (perhaps transmitting Plato)… Read more The Kindness of Prejudice →
I rescued this juvenile chipmunk from a neighbor’s cat. He seemed to be in shock, so I took him inside and gave him some diced apple and maple spinners. After… Read more A Mother’s Fierce Love →
We have been studying why liberty must be more than an idea or speech. Part I considered how ideas are inflected or corrupted by incompatible habits; a bureaucrat, for example,… Read more Habits of Liberty: Part III →