Topic: Philosophy

The Impossible American Dream?
The Impossible American Dream? June 21, 2025 Stephen Helgesen How do we define "greatness"? A view from Denmark.
Alasdair MacIntyre has died, but his philosophy of virtue should be resurrected
Alasdair MacIntyre has died, but his philosophy of virtue should be resurrected June 13, 2025 Chris Boland If you look at the rational, virtuous world he advocated, versus the left’s purely emotive world, it’s easy to see which would serve us better.
Honesty: Is it worth it? Can the truth really set us free?
Honesty: Is it worth it? Can the truth really set us free? May 30, 2025 Eric Utter Honesty is the first chapter of wisdom.
Reaching for the Source of Meaning and Certitude
Reaching for the Source of Meaning and Certitude February 9, 2025 Anthony J. DeBlasi An inviolable message of meaning is written on the heart.
The truth is: It's up to us to recognize the truth
The truth is: It's up to us to recognize the truth January 20, 2025 Eric Utter Truth is not in vogue at the moment. It has been supplanted by tolerance, except for tolerance of the truth, ironically.
Joe Biden's Immoral Reasons for Fixating on Ukraine
Joe Biden's Immoral Reasons for Fixating on Ukraine December 18, 2024 Victoria White Berger Beyond the obvious political causes, don't dismiss personal intentions, too.
The New Marxist on the Block and His Pernicious Gospel of 'Degrowth'
The New Marxist on the Block and His Pernicious Gospel of 'Degrowth' October 20, 2024 Janet Levy A Japanese Marxist whose ideas are so bonkers even The Atlantic doesn't like him is making waves among young leftists here who love his greenie 'degrowth' proposals.
Happiness, Rights, and Culture
Happiness, Rights, and Culture October 14, 2024 Anthony Matoria Different cultural views, particularly about the nature of happiness, amount to fault lines between left and right.
Can Reason Change Reality?
Can Reason Change Reality? July 7, 2024 Anthony J. DeBlasi Making everything relative is an ever-shifting non-position about what in fact may really be best.
Just when you thought academia was hopeless...
Just when you thought academia was hopeless... April 28, 2014 Thomas Lifson Along comes the British journal Philosophy Now
Progressivism vs. the Pursuit of Happiness
Progressivism vs. the Pursuit of Happiness March 30, 2014 Daren Jonescu The moral split personality that has ravaged modern society -- sentimental collectivism crossed with nihilistic self-seeking. 
Sexism and Philosophy
Sexism and Philosophy February 14, 2014 Ben Cohen Feminist critics of academic philosophy are clearly driven by motives that have little connection to ostensible claims of "fairness."
Leftism: A Radical Faith
Leftism: A Radical Faith January 5, 2014 Bruce A. Riggs A secular, politico-centric faith, disdainful of theistic beliefs and contemptuous of those who subscribe to them.
Parasitocracy
Parasitocracy October 9, 2013 Daren Jonescu A uniquely intractable form of tyranny that is currently metastasizing throughout the world, namely the rule of an authoritarian plurality of societal parasites.
Surviving the Political War
Surviving the Political War November 7, 2012 Glenn Fairman Growing weary of the filth and calumny, the stink and the repercussions that attend grasping for the golden ring of power, it will be good for a time to focus on the practical and beautiful things that happen so miraculously around us