Philosophy

To some, Jordan Peterson is a breath of fresh air. To others, a guru. Many find him and his ideas to be dangerous. Still others see him as a sign of the times. In a sense, they’re all right.

It seems there’s always some Grinch that wants to ruin Christmas every year.

Are Americans who admire the world’s most brutal regimes miseducated or stupid?

“We did not create or fashion ourselves, and we did not get to where we are in life by ourselves. So living in gratitude is living in truth.” Living out of ingratitude is living a lie.

A sense of lack generates anxious feelings.

It comes from Oscar Wilde's play, "A Woman of No Importance."

Of all the disturbing developments in culture and ideas over the last several years few have been more disturbing than the reemergence of communism and socialism.  

Jones sought to “infiltrate the church” to spread the communist message.

Today's reformation has many similarities with the one which occurred 500 years ago, only today's is not happening in the churches.

Every episode of The Office provides a master class in how an NPC behaves. Michael ignores the warning signs that he is an NPC, but we don’t have to. 

In an age where individuals are increasingly falling for socialist nostrums, Thomas Merton provides timeless lessons about why people choose bankrupt ideologies such as communism.   

They claim they've merely inherited a tradition from the 1930s Left. Here's why that's wrong.

What is Bulverism and why has it become so prevalent?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago offers some poignant advice for dealing with the friction in today's society.

We’re used to hearing that American college students don’t like reading and avoid tough courses where they have to. But a new course at the University of Oklahoma (OU) proves that many students are eager for a demanding course.

The Canadian psychologist has set off left-wing ideological Geiger counters around the world, and for good reason.

Civil wars happen when there is a profound philosophical incompatibility inside a nation.

Sexbots used to be limited to science fiction movies. Now they are on the verge of being mass produced.  

The presumption of innocence until proven guilty is a bed rock principle of Western Civilization.  Protecting individuals from angry mobs remains a basic task of our judicial system.

Change is awesome, but transition is terrifying, and sometimes changing your state in life (even to the slightest degree) feels as dramatic and painful as trying to saw your arm off.

The problem that any rational thinker needs to tackle is that the science increasingly shows that atheists are no more rational than theists.

Common sense that today's young people have forgotten?

Chesterton was generally sympathetic to the plight of the poor, but not in the case of easy divorce.

Venezualan dicator Nicolas Maduro appears to fulfill all the requirements of a tyrant who ought to be removed from office by assassination. But is killing a tyrant ever a good idea?  

Would childhood anxiety and depression diminish if more parents followed through on giving chores?

Leslie Rubin’s brilliant study argues that the fault, dear America, lies not in our stars but in ourselves—our repudiation in the past century of the moderate liberal philosophy which was steeped in Aristotelian wisdom about favoring the decent republican virtues of a middle class.

But is a shopping mall exactly what we have reduced the university to?

Ask yourself whether we are moving in the right direction