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Plato's Cave Was About Us, Not Others
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- September 11, 2026

This week the Washington Post ran a long feature about a school police officer in South Carolina who has been accused of several sexual assaults on high school girls. It turns out that more than 200 police officers have been charged with child sexual abuse between 2005 and 2022. These officers are patrolling schools to prevent mass
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I wrote an article this past year detailing my experience of wearing exclusively dresses and skirts, due to symptoms of my third pregnancy. I am now on the other side of this experience—I delivered my third son and am healing very well postpartum. To my own surprise, I find I have not gone back to
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Michael Oakeshott was one of the most important philosophers of the 1900s, but perhaps because he was an Englishman, his work is not very well known in America. That’s a shame. By tracing the deep roots of modern political thought, Oakeshott laid bare the dangers of rationalism—and predicted the divisive politics we see today. Oakeshott
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Have the political parties always held the positions they do today? Has the right moved further right, or the left further left? The Republican Party of 2024 is far more liberal than the Democrat Party of the 1990s. With few exceptions, Republicans have consistently supported deficit spending, corporate welfare, and social welfare for decades now.
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Are American communities deteriorating? The Pew Research Center recently surveyed people from 24 countries, asking them whether they felt very/somewhat close to people in their country and/or people in their local community. The United States fell dead last when it came to a sense of solidarity with countrymen: Only 66 percent of Americans said that
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My wife and I recently found out that baby number two is on the way, and we couldn’t be more delighted. Parenting is without doubt the most rewarding adventure we have ever embarked upon. All this being true, the prospect of another baby has made me think long and hard about our financial position over
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