Evolution, Sexual Politics, and the Crisis of Community
Men have evolved to be disposable protectors of women. Little boys will instinctively pick up sticks and use them as swords and rifles. They will even practice…
The Religious Instinct: Fact, Fiction, and Plato
Anamnesis is a key feature of Platonic philosophy. It means “to remember.” Plato thought that eternal truths concerning justice, truth, and beauty were present in the human…
What Constitutes “Genius”? Beyond IQ and the Importance of Creative Individualism
What constitutes genius? Who is a genius? The Genius Famine, by Bruce Charlton and Edward Dutton, answered many burning questions that have arisen for me over the…
A Professor Dialogues and Responds to Students on Homelessness, Welfare, and Mental Illness
The word “homeless” makes it sound as though we are talking about someone who is having difficulty finding accommodation.[1] That is not the case and is very…
Review of “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky
In the usual roadside picnic, travelers might spread out a picnic blanket, take out a hamper, and help themselves to lunch. In the process, they might carelessly…
Charles Murray: Searching for the Foundation of Society
Charles Murray, in Coming Apart, points out that the American experiment in minimizing the extent of the powers of the federal government, is premised on self-governance involving…
Is it possible to separate politics from philosophy, from any educational pursuit?
Education cannot occur where equality is taken as the preeminent moral virtue, where the past is rejected as hopelessly morally compromised, and when materialism is adopted as…
Perception: I/Thou
There are just two kinds of subjects of perception; the natural and the man-made. The natural is God’s Creation, the man-made, man’s creation, employing elements of Creation…
Kill Ill: Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, wrote The Visit[1] (Der Besuch der alten Dame) in 1956. Dürrenmatt is a twentieth century Swiss playwright (1921-1990) who gets mentioned alongside Beckett, Camus, Sartre,…
Ghettoside: High Homicide Environments
Jill Leovy wrote her 2015 book Ghettoside after spending years embedded in the homicide division of a police department in LA and observing the detectives working in…
The Crack in Everything
You can add up the parts But you won't have the sum You can strike up the march There is no drum Every heart, every heart To…
The Oedipus Casebook
The Oedipus Casebook. Mark R. Anspach, eds. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2020. Offering a new translation of Oedipus Rex, and a collection of…
Is Western Civilization Misogynistic?
Resentment combines hatred and love/desire. Self-hatred and dissatisfaction often leads to imagining that someone else has it better and to resentfully desiring to be that someone. That…
Globalism, Don Juan and the Perennial Philosophy
The perennial philosophy involves the notion that there are certain metaphysical truths that transcend any particular culture: that there is essentially just one wisdom tradition and it…
Political Correctness and the Death of Education – Requiem for a Dream
In The One By Whom Scandal Comes (2014) René Girard writes: “Every culture takes a dim view of anyone who does not unconditionally prefer the native to the…