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  • Mayflower Compact or Plymouth Combination?

    Mayflower Compact or Plymouth Combination?0

    On the first day of our spring semester, at the little liberal arts college at which I teach, I have for the last fourteen years had the joy of watching forty freshmen respond to the complexities and depth of a seemingly simple document, that we call, the Mayflower Compact. It really should be rather straightforward:

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  • Maybe You’re A Witch

    Maybe You’re A Witch0

    Those who seek to control and to destroy like to play with words. The great Athenian sculptor Phidias was persecuted by those who whimsically used the words “embezzlement” and “impiety.” Joan d’Arc was burnt and Galileo prosecuted via an eternally elastic concept of “heresy.” The witch hysteria relied on a protean concept of “evidence.” The

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  • Maybe the West Isn’t as Secular as We Thought

    Maybe the West Isn’t as Secular as We Thought0

    • January 15, 2016

    The West stands for secular law while Muslims want to impose a religious Sharia law, right? Not so fast, says Remi Brague, professor of philosophy at the University of Munich. In his essay “Are Non-Theocratic Regimes Possible?”, Brague argues, “The two conceptions of law that face each other [Western and Muslim] both rest on a common

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  • Maybe teachers need a blacksnake whip?

    Maybe teachers need a blacksnake whip?0

    Just as Black Lives Matter succeeded in getting a teacher put on paid leave for daring to question the wisdom of teachers not having the authority to discipline students in the St. Paul Public Schools after several cases of teachers being assaulted (learn more here), another teacher is assaulted by a group of students. This

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  • Maybe New York City Deserves to End

    Maybe New York City Deserves to End0

    Americans are leaving big cities in droves. The Daily Mail, writing about the exodus from Los Angeles quotes a local resident as saying, “The streets look like Haiti after the earthquake. It’s dirty, dangerous and work has dried up. Even when studios start to open up, people will choose to work from other places.” In the first part

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  • Maybe Liberals Are Just Better Utilitarians

    Maybe Liberals Are Just Better Utilitarians0

    We keep hearing that conservatism in America is in crisis, that its messages don’t resonate, that it continues to lose political ground. These woes are typically ascribed the conservative movement’s lack of a dominant narrative. But I actually think conservatism does have a dominant narrative. In fact, it’s the same dominant narrative of liberalism. The

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