Ignoring the End: Yuval Noah Harari’s Attack on Morality
Yuval Noah Harari, apparently quoting himself, recently wrote this horrifying Tweet: From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly...
View ArticleRadical Education and Intersectionality: Who Is Bell Hooks?
Many of us are well aware of the indoctrination in today’s classrooms. Whether it’s sexually explicit materials or woke ideology in the classroom, each day seems to bring a new round of insanity. But...
View ArticleWhy We Must Objectively Study Difficult Questions
With some regularity, students in my sociological theory course will ask why we should even entertain arguments about the biological reality of race. They note, correctly, that this topic is...
View ArticleThe Importance of Making Mistakes
A couple of years ago, I received a post-semester email from a student’s father. He was upset about his child’s final grade in my class, which had landed somewhere between a high B and a low A. The...
View ArticleWhat Is a Home?
The ultimate adventure story is about the journey home. Consider, for example, Odysseus at sea, Aeneas in search of a haven for the Trojans, the Israelites in the desert. Such stories strike a note on...
View ArticleThe Doctor of Deconstruction: Who Is Jacques Derrida?
It seems that words today change meanings every day. For instance, the words “man” and “woman” are now taken to mean a variety of mutually exclusive realities. What was clear and simple is now...
View ArticleSeeing Ourselves in the Mystical Mirror
Those of us who love literature are puzzled by those who are indifferent to its goodness, truth and beauty. We are perplexed by those who won’t read fiction because they want the facts and nothing but...
View ArticleHaving Babies Is Profoundly Immoral. We Should Move Towards Extinction, Say...
The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper....
View ArticleThe Need for Authority
When I was 14, I wanted to be Kurt Cobain. I wanted to drop out of school, be sad and poetic, and start a rock band. I actually said this to my dad. He took me to a burger joint …
View ArticleShould We Stop Using the Term ‘Critical Thinking’?
For a long time, when I saw the term critical thinking, I would nod approvingly. Who doesn’t want to sharpen their analytical thought, give their mind a keener edge? In fact, I would have said that...
View ArticleThe Selfishness of the World-Saving Antinatalists
Have you encountered the antinatalists yet? This is a growing phenomenon in contemporary America, especially among the young. We might call them the “No Children Movement,” as they advocate a rejection...
View ArticleEducational Collapse and the Definition of Truth
It’s no secret that America’s students are struggling. The latest Nation’s Report Cards have not been flattering, with average scores in both math and reading declining over recent years. It’s also no...
View ArticleMy New Year’s Resolution: Have More Enemies
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? I rarely make them, but this year I have. Please do not mistake the title. I did not write “make more enemies,” though to be honest that might not be a bad...
View ArticleImagined Virtue: What News Can Make Us Miss
Clicking on my car radio, I hear two voices discussing—vehemently—a federal government conflict. Opening my podcast app, I find an entire category dedicated to “News,” or informing listeners of the...
View ArticleIs Nihilism the Logical End of Atheism?
What happens when nihilism is taken to its logical and philosophical conclusion? “Human rights are just like heaven and like God. It’s just a fictional story that we have invented and spread around. It...
View ArticleDostoevsky and American Despair: The Penalty of Nihilism
These chilling words, ringing with despair, come from one of the most striking characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov: We always imagine...
View ArticleWhat Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?
In The Gay Science (1882), Friedrich Nietzsche’s character of the madman had proclaimed, “God is dead.” The Time cover for April 8, 1966, turned this proclamation into a provocative question for a...
View ArticleReturning to First Things to Save Civilization
In this most rare and radiant of Wisconsin February’s, with record-high temperatures and ample sunshine, my wife has been tapping trees and making maple syrup. I applaud her efforts, and I gratefully...
View Article‘The New York Times,’ the 1619 Project, and ‘Quid Est Veritas’?
Many of us have heard of the 1619 Project and its attempt to reinvent American history. 1619, according to The New York Times writers, is the year that the first slaves arrived on American soil. And...
View ArticleWhy Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters
We want to think that the line between good and evil is clear and that individuals fall into one camp or another. In The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “If only it were all...
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