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  • What Is Nationalism?

    What Is Nationalism?0

    Mark Malvasi’s recent essay on the rise of nationalism in the nineteenth century was a cogent and thought-provoking appraisal of the dangers of politically orchestrated mob-patriotism. It was not, however, an essay that sought to define nationalism per se, and it is dangerous to presume that nationalism is always synonymous with such mob-patriotism and the

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  • Famous Author: ‘There Is No Such Thing as Atheism’

    Famous Author: ‘There Is No Such Thing as Atheism’0

    In today’s secular America, it feels like atheism (the lack of belief in a divine being) is extremely prevalent. But you may be surprised to learn that, according to the most recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, only about 3% of Americans actually identify as atheist. That said, there are many more Americans

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  • Legal and Illegal Is Not Right and Wrong

    Legal and Illegal Is Not Right and Wrong1

    • September 18, 2017

    One of my favorite sayings comes from the now defunct web-comic A Softer World. “It was a sweet day when I realized,” reads the comic, “legal and illegal had nothing to do with right and wrong.” I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. I wish I could say it was because I had faced

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  • Millennials Now Need ‘Coaching Rooms’ to Learn How to Parent

    Millennials Now Need ‘Coaching Rooms’ to Learn How to Parent0

    Earlier this evening while chatting with my newlywed neighbors, I tried to put them at ease about parenthood. I told them: It’s not hard, just difficult. When born on time and healthy, babies generally just need food, clean clothes and diapers, and sleep. It takes a while for new parents to get into the groove

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  • Constitution Day: What did your kids do?

    Constitution Day: What did your kids do?0

    I had the pleasure of visiting Agamim Classical Academy, a K-6 charter school in Hopkins, Minnesota dedicated to providing “students with a classical, liberal arts, challenging, and inspiring education,” for its Constitution Day celebration. When many public schools seem leery of openly embracing traditional American patriotism, even going so far as to banish students wearing clothing with

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  • Nationalism in America is a Farce that Will End in Tragedy

    Nationalism in America is a Farce that Will End in Tragedy0

    Karl Marx famously began The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by observing that Hegel “remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. Hegel, and by implication Marx, was wrong. The uniqueness of circumstance and the individuality of actor mean that history does not, and cannot, repeat itself. But

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