[Note: In honor of the eighth season of one of my favorite middlebrow reality TV shows, I thought I’d dust off this post from July 2009.} No one thought it would succeed. Even the executive producer doubted that an “American Idol-style competition for dancers” would work on television. Dance . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Singer reviews a new book called On What Matters in his syndicated column. Philosopher Derek Parfit apparently argues that there is such a thing as objective truth, and indeed, that we need to find “what really matters” if life is to have any ultimate meaning. Singer . . . . Continue Reading »
TWO collections of Wilson Carey McWilliams essays! Patrick Deneen introduces them here . One is more America-oriented, the other more general. Wendell Berry is the muse, model, and poet of Porcherism, but McWilliams is its real political philosopher. Or deserves . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been noticing that the so-called right to family life has become the justification for a multitudes of problems in Europe—such as not jailing felons as a human right matter due to impact on family and not deporting foreign terrorists living in the UK—issues that are beyond our . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter’s column this week draws on the autobiographical to illustrate an important point of comparison between workers in the world of labor and their counterparts in the world of ideas: Both idealize the other’s lot; but, as Carter argues, the two life courses are different in . . . . Continue Reading »
The other day the Chronicle of Higher Education had a lengthy article about the work of the “neurophilosopher” Patricia Churchland, with a few critics heard from but for the most part praising her, on the occasion of her new book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh dear, oh dear: What’s a radical environmentalist to do? On one hand, the earth is supposedly melting and we need to deploy wind turbines and other green technologies to “save the planet.” Adding to our felonious existence, we awful humans are killing endangered . . . . Continue Reading »
The ” I Am Second ” project has some powerful, inspiring testimonies of what happens when you put God first. Here are a few examples: Brian Welch, former guitarist for the rock band Korn Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas Chris Plekenpol, Army Captain and Iraq veteran View more . . . . Continue Reading »
In the recent presidential debate, Rep. Ron Paul stated his position on marriage: [G]et the government out of it. Why doesn’t it go to the church? And why doesn’t it to go to the individuals? I don’t think government should give us a license to get married. It should be in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Here we learn that what the superstore is pretty much giving away Obamacare is going to charge big bucks for . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
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