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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Scandal-Free?!

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Like the three monkeys who see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil some in the media are marveling at how scandal-free the Obama admini...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Unrealistic Expectations

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In a recent column Suzanne Venker, an author and cultural critic who writes about relationships, marriage and work-family issues, discusses...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Off the Rails

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George Orwell was a man of the left who saw clearly that the totalitarian impulse to control thought, speech and behavior of the masses led ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Martin Luther King - An American Hero

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Today is the day we celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday and it would be well to focus on why we do. King was a man of great courage ...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

The Consolations of Philosophy

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The philosophy department at Lehigh University answers the question: Why study philosophy? with a helpful short essay , which includes the f...
Friday, January 13, 2017

The Most Unpopular Cabinet Nominee

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If you were asked to pick which of Donald Trump's nominees for cabinet secretary would be most likely to draw the most criticism and ire...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Envisioning a Posthuman World

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The movement known as "posthumanism" is gradually being incorporated into the academic mainstream as an interview in the New York...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Repealing Obamacare

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The New York Times has a nifty graphic that illustrates the difficulties Republicans face in repealing Obamacare. The architects of the Aff...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Either Argument Or Violence

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Nathan Beacom at The Federalist makes the case that our polity faces two alternatives: Either we can resolve our political disputes through...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Bigger Threat Than ISIL

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Dexter Filkins has written a captivating piece for The New Yorker on what many consider to be the biggest threat facing Iraq at the moment, ...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Boom Star

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If astronomers at Calvin College in Michigan are correct in five years we should be able to see the aftermath of an event that occurred almo...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Unable to Call it Evil

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By now the news of the kidnapping and torture of a mentally-challenged white man by four blacks has been widely disseminated, and most peopl...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Critical Thinking (Pt. II)

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Yesterday we began to look at a column by Mary Tillotson who discusses eight things people can do to become better thinkers. I'd like t...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Critical Thinking (Pt. I)

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Mary Tillotson at The Federalist presents a good lesson in critical thinking. Her immediate context is the application of a critical eye to...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Meaning and Beauty

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Michael Baruzzini writing at First Things recalls the an exchange between Richard Dawkins and Archbishop Rowan Williams in which Dawkins ...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

Looking for Ethics in All the Wrong Places

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A friend some time ago passed along a link to Susan Jacoby's discussion in the New York Times of a book by Phil Zuckerman titled Living...
Friday, December 30, 2016

The President's Options

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President Obama has promised that he will respond to Russian hacking undertaken during the U.S. presidential campaign. An article at Bloombe...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Favorite Reads in 2016

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I had time to read (and listen to on Libre Vox) a lot of books this year, about eighty in all. Here by category are my favorite thirty five ...