Perhaps it is strange that I, a Tennessean and an American, should write my first candidate-specific political article on a British politician like Rupert Lowe. At any rate, I’ve been following British politics for a while now, seeing their tailspin
Last week’s introduction to this 4-part series1 focused on Iserbyt’s main thesis: the morphing of the American education system, particularly its governmental elements, into a Behaviorist, input-output system designed to produce people that react rather than think. Today, we’ll go
Sometimes a book recommendation sits un-followed for months before you get to it. Sometimes, five minutes after registering it, you find out that the PDF is offered by the author’s website, for free (which is good, because the print version
What is free will? The words ‘Free will’ can start a firefight. As with most ideas of great controversy, it has nearly as many definitions as its controversy has contenders. Calvinists have one definition, Arminians another, other Calvinists a third,
Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle! – Ps. 24:8 In these days of renewing war, many a man feels himself equipped with the secret to military success, the tech or
AI is all the rage nowadays. Rage about its use, and rage to use it. Artificial intelligence is the wave of the future, some proclaim. Others call it a dud. The fact is, it’s not quite either. It’s a potentially
Recently Ben Shapiro added another hot take to his history of bad media analyses when he went after It’s a Wonderful Life. He asserted that Mr. Potter had the right of it: lending should be run as Potter ran it,
The Second Element: Mechanistic Metaphysic The materialist understanding of the universe is the most familiar iteration of this mindset to us moderns. We live in a culture which, at least pro forma, asserts that all reality is matter-in-motion, with each
The tradition of folk-magic, of ‘superstition,’ and of magic in general is old and endemic to humanity. Its philosophical bones appear in modernity, in the medieval era, and in ancient times, in materialism, in mysticism, in simple superstition. To make
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book II: Of the Rights of Things commences with a brief discussion of the origin of property. Therein he states, quite rightly, that the Dominion Mandate of Genesis 1:28 is “the only true