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Friday, October 7, 2016

With Friends Like These

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President Obama's signature accomplishment, the achievement for which he wishes most to be remembered, is passage of the Affordable Care...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

C.S. Lewis on the Inconsistency in Naturalistic Ethics

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A student linked me to a post by historian Alan Snyder who highlights some of C.S. Lewis' thoughts on metaphysical naturalism in his fa...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

How Presuppositions Shape Politics

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Students at one of the schools at which I teach are engaged this week in a campus-wide symposium on politics. My classes had some gratifying...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

What's Really Real?

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This is a post I've run before but am reposting since it's relevant to some topics my students and I have been discussing in class: ...
Monday, October 3, 2016

The Lie Ratchet

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Sadly, it seems impossible to believe anything either of the candidates running for the office of President of the United States tells us. N...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Is Hillary Any Better?

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The Clinton campaign and its media facilitators are making hay out Trump's juvenile insults of a Venezuelan beauty queen whom he twenty ...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Science, Logic, and Feminism

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Joy Pullman, senior editor at The Federalist calls attention to a Ph.D candidate who concludes in her dissertation that science is hostile ...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Hillary's Awkward Relationship with the Facts

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It's a shibboleth of the left that our criminal justice system is infected with systemic racism. Hillary Clinton herself reaffirmed this...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The Most Horrifying Threat

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Perhaps the most dangerous threat facing our nation from abroad is not the annihilation of our cities in a nuclear holocaust or the threat o...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Assuming a Can Opener

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Author Eric Metaxis recounts the old story of a chemist, a physicist, and an economist stranded on a desert island with nothing to eat but ...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Cruz's Letter

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A lot of people were stunned and disappointed when Senator Ted Cruz announced on Friday that he was going to vote for Donald Trump. During t...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Is Free Will an Illusion? (Pt. II)

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Yesterday we took a look at philosopher Stephen Cave's essay on free will which appeared in The Atlantic last June. Cave quoted several...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Is Free Will an Illusion? (Pt. I)

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One of the most intractable of all philosophical questions over the centuries has been the question of whether we really have the freedom to...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Snowflakes and Censors

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Oklahoma Weslyan University President Dr. Everett Piper's brief essay last Fall titled This is Not a Daycare, It's a University we...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Reflections on the News

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If I had my way there are two terms upon which I'd have the media place a moratorium, those being lone wolf and radical extremist . The...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The Language Problem

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I've been enjoying Tom Wolfe's new book, The Kingdom of Speech , and heartily recommend it to anyone interested in the history of th...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Premoderns and Postmoderns (Pt. III)

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This is the third in the series of reflections on Joseph Bottum's essay titled Christians and Postmoderns . Scroll down for the two prev...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Premoderns and Postmoderns (Pt. II)

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I'd like to continue our look at the First Things essay (Christians and Postmoderns) by Joseph Bottum that I began yesterday . Bott...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Premoderns and Postmoderns (Pt. I)

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Having just this week finished talking about the philosophical distinctions between premodern, modern, and postmodern worldviews in my class...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

The Sniper and the Sadist

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Here's a story particularly difficult, I think, for those who believe that war is never the answer. I don't recount the story to bel...