Philosophy

Visit a Coffee Shop and You’ll Realize American Freedoms Are Alive and Well 3
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 3, 2025
Occasionally, two diametrically opposed realities spring to our attention, surprising us by means of their stark contrast and then summoning up unexpected revelations. That happened recently as I was working on my laptop in my favorite coffee shop, Dynamic Life. Behind me 10 women, all of grandmotherly age with Bibles at hand, scooted a couple
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Let’s Apply Elon’s Bullet Point List to Homemakers So We Can Finally Appreciate Their True Worth 3
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, MomThink, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- February 26, 2025
A friend of mine recently quit her corporate job to stay home with her two young children. Although the decision was one she’d long wanted to make, it wasn’t necessarily easy, for it meant saying goodbye to co-workers and a company she enjoyed, as well as a reduction in the family budget. It also meant
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 4
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- February 14, 2025
Is there an epidemic of loneliness in the United States? Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy thought so. In 2023, he declared a national epidemic of loneliness and isolation, stating in June 2024, “The overall mortality impact of loneliness and isolation are on par with smoking daily, and they’re even greater than the mortality impact we
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We Should Heed What This Ex-Soviet Spy Says About Beauty … And Terror 8
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- October 23, 2024
In the end, the only memorable stories, like the only memorable experiences, are religious and moral. They give men the heart to suffer the ordeal of a life that perpetually rends them between its beauty and its terror. These two sentences, written by Whittaker Chambers, quite literally stopped me in my tracks when I first
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Viktor Frankl and the Search for Meaning 3
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Philosophy
- September 9, 2024
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. —Viktor Frankl Are human beings primarily motivated by sex and power? The first two great psychoanalytic schools, one founded by Sigmund Freud and the other
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The Tyranny of Rationalism and Michael Oakeshott 1
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- September 3, 2024
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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