Peter Kreeft has written an article for Touchstone called ” Clashing Symbols: The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral, & Sexual Consequences .” The thinking goes as follows: Symbolic logic has eclipsed Aristotelian logic in nearly all philosophy textbooks. This is bad . . . . Continue Reading »
The estimable R.R. Reno’s wit is as dry as his martinis, so it is hard for me to know how seriously he meant the proposal in his “On the Square” essay ” Martinis and Taxes ” today, for a federal wealth tax. His friend, however, led him astray by invoking the . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno on martinis and taxes : How do we deal with unsustainable spending and borrowing? The formula is simple: less spending—or more accurately less rapid increases in spending—and more revenue. But can we generate more revenue without suppressing economic growth, which is after all . . . . Continue Reading »
“Dust you are, and unto dust you shall return,” said the Lord God to Adam after the first sin. It’s a fine translation of the Hebrew, that dust; it suggests transience and insubstantiality. By the nineteenth century, in Britain at least, the word came to denote garbage of . . . . Continue Reading »
Fluid situation, but this Newsmax account is as good as any for portraying where things stand at the moment. 5 days away from a referendum that may give Egypt an essentially Islamist constitution. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thoughts by me here. . . . . Continue Reading »
LGBT advocates like to compare themselves to African Americans in what they claim is discrimination practiced against them. We know that African Americans were systematically left out of much of American life. Many were locked into crushing poverty that could be tied directly to their inability to . . . . Continue Reading »
I was wandering through Facebook and noticed a quote by G.K. Chesterton at the top of someone’s profile. The quote was exceptionally stupid. And I thought to myself, So many people repeat these little quips, and so many of them are awful. So I decided to start a collection. I made it through the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Coming: Part II Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest On Reason in Milton and Donne Trina Hyun, The Augustine Collective Enough with the Lame Hanukkah Parodies Johnna Kaplan, Jewish Daily Forward The Disappearing Secondhand Bookstore Theodore Dalrymple, The Telegraph How Changing What I . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter asked for an homage to MItt Romney. I think I supplied one in the current Claremont Review of Books. Here is the link: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.2018/article_detail.asp . . . . Continue Reading »
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