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  • Social Justice Is at Odds with American Ideas of Justice

    Social Justice Is at Odds with American Ideas of Justice0

    What is justice? This complicated question is the subject of much study by philosophers, lawyers, clergy, and laymen. It is often easier to determine the metes and bounds of justice from what it is not than to define what it is in the abstract. Unfair procedures, treating the rich differently from the poor, racial discrimination,

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  • Social Justice is ‘Fake Scholarship,’ Oxford Philosopher Says

    Social Justice is ‘Fake Scholarship,’ Oxford Philosopher Says2

    Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, an English philosopher and writer who specializes in political philosophy and aesthetics, said social justice is changing the very nature of scholarship—and not for the better.    “The academy has been invaded by a new form of study,” says Scruton, a senior research fellow at Oxford University, in a recently published

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  • Social Isolation is Dangerous to Democracy

    Social Isolation is Dangerous to Democracy0

    How many times have you attended a city council meeting? A school board meeting? Participated in a regional commission to address a social problem? Run for public office?  Some of us are politically engaged. But most of us are not. Is a vibrant public life really worth living? The majority of Americans prioritize the obligations

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  • Social Isolation Is Damaging an Entire Generation of Kids

    Social Isolation Is Damaging an Entire Generation of Kids0

    I read an advice article at Slate recently where a mom of a nearly five-year-old daughter wrote in to express concern that her child hasn’t seen any friends in five months, since COVID-19 lockdowns began. She said: Because of COVID, my husband and I have decided to skip [pre-K] altogether and teach her everything she

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  • Social Distancing Tips From Robinson Crusoe

    Social Distancing Tips From Robinson Crusoe0

    He survived the last great plague in London and the city’s Great Fire. He was imprisoned and persecuted for his religious and political views. There was no happy ending for the journalist Daniel Defoe, author of “A Journal of a Plague Year.” When he died in 1731, he was mired in debt and hiding from

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  • Social Distancing Can Kill, Too

    Social Distancing Can Kill, Too0

    Fear is a powerful emotion: it is sometimes rational, but it can cloud our reasoning. A number of fallacies pervade the COVID-19 debate. One is the fallacy of the missing denominator: we are told that X number of people have died of COVID-19, but we don’t appreciate the size of the population in which these

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