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June 2020

June 10, 2020

Something to Read Just Now (Ten Books I Find Helpful)

What to read this summer? This week two helpful books stood out. One was the...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

Resist Hatred

II. If you find yourself hating your fellow men and resist this hatred, and you...

May 09, 2020

False Prophets

If you say, "God said" and God did not say, then that is a terminal...

May 08, 2020

Ten Rules for When You Do Not Know an Area (How to Avoid Bigfoot without also Being Duped by Group Think Experts)

We are in a pandemic and the experts do not all agree about what we...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

The Dazzled Intellect (Plato, Paradise, Pandemics)

We find ugliness easier to describe than perfect beauty. Stories of villainy or of complicated...

April 26, 2020

The Bad Question (Plato’s Meno)

"There is no such thing as a bad question." This is wrong, sort of. There are bad...

April 09, 2020

The Revelation of God in Jesus Christ is Central (Saint Basil and Classical Education)

Saint Basil read Homer and the Greek philosophers, but he was captivated by Jesus. If you...

April 07, 2020

Learning from Thomas During a Pandemic (Guest Voice Jill Bergen 3/3)

For the duration of the pandemic, I have decided to focus on the positive. Dialectic...

April 05, 2020

Learning From Thomas During a Pandemic (Guest Voice Jill Bergen 1/3)

For the duration of the pandemic, I have decided to focus on the positive. Dialectic...

March 2020

March 28, 2020

Follow Scientists on the Science, but NOT Necessarily on What To Do

Many politicians are wisely arguing that when it comes to medicine, they should heed medical doctors....

March 27, 2020

Distinctions We Need in Hard Times: Intended versus Unintended Consequences

We cannot talk intelligently about a crisis if we do not have the right vocabulary....

March 25, 2020

Intended versus Unintended Consequences: A Helpful Distinction

Sometimes the right language can help us make better decisions or think more carefully about...

February 2020

February 23, 2020

The Pitiable End of a Noble Sort of Secularism (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

When you argue with a friend, you try to be charitable, understand where he is...

February 22, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic: In Summary (Guest Voice: Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 12, 2020

AOC and I were wrong (and why it should or should not matter)

The other day Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez conflated the names of two economists “John Maynard Keynes”...

February 10, 2020

You Cannot Use Caps to Do Away With God: Metaphysics by Capitalization Part II (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 09, 2020

You Cannot Use Caps to Do Away With God: Metaphysics by Capitalization Part I (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 08, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic (In Which Guest Voice Jeff Williams Let’s Me Have It!)

Background on the Discussion: What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 06, 2020

Physicalism of the Gaps! A Reply to Jeff Williams