Relativism

The Injustice of Nonjudgmentalism

by Peter J. Leithart

How refusal to make judgments hurts the weakest of us. Continue Reading »

Rise of the “Unholy Left”

by Michael P. Murphy

If Michael Walsh’s account of the rise of the “Unholy Left” in The Devil’s Pleasure Palaceis to be believed, the playbook for the contemporary fragmentation of American values was drawn up in Frankfurt by neo-Marxian philosophers in the years between the two World Wars. 
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City of Language

by Peter J. Leithart

In Who’s Afraid of Relativism?, his recent brief for Christian pragmatism as a philosophy of contingency and creaturehood, James KA Smith summarizes a wonderful little analogy from Wittgenstein: “Language [is] a city. While referentialist theories of meaning might recognize . . . . Continue Reading »