Philosophy

A Powerful Animated Guide About Where Not to Seek for Happiness 3
- Culture, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- September 1, 2022
Earlier this year, nearly one-quarter of all Yale undergraduates enrolled in a course on how to be happy. “A lot of us are anxious, stressed, unhappy, numb,” a freshman taking the course told the New York Times. “The fact that a class like this has such large interest speaks to how tired students are of numbing
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Want to Change Hearts and Minds? Try Humility.8
- Culture, History, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- August 30, 2022
A friend recently sent me a popular meme called the Pyramid of Intellect. It shows the various academic degrees, starting at the base of the pyramid with a high school diploma and narrows its way up to a Ph.D. But at the very top of the pyramid is a little section that reads, “People who
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Reflections on the Reality We’re Facing 11
- Family, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Western Civilization
- August 25, 2022
In his Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell recounts an incident in which he and Johnson were discussing philosopher Bishop Berkeley’s idea that matter was non-existent, that everything in the world is ideal. When Boswell says that the bishop’s hypothesis cannot be refuted, Johnson kicks a large stone and says, “I refute him thus.” Philosophers
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Hannah Arendt’s Chilling Thesis on Evil 4
- History, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 2, 2022
Nine months after the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann died at the end of a noose in Israel, a controversial but thoughtful commentary about his trial appeared in The New Yorker. The public reaction stunned its author, the famed political theorist and Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). It was February 1963. Arendt’s eyewitness assessment of
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No Place Like Home to Help Freedom Grow 6
- Culture, Economics, Family, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- July 12, 2022
While having dinner with a Chinese couple several years ago, I listened as they described their visiting parents’ response to the American landscape. Having recently arrived from China, the parents’ amazement about the Dakotas was particularly amusing. “So much space!” was the loose translation. “They could build so many apartments!” I laughed heartily at the
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Why Are So Many Young People Dying Suddenly?34
- Politics, Philosophy, Science
- June 28, 2022
If the push notifications on my computer are any indication, an alarming trend is unfolding before our eyes: young, seemingly healthy individuals are dropping like flies, dying suddenly. It wasn’t always like this. Sure, the death notifications of high-profile figures would come occasionally, but they were usually for those in their 80s or 90s who
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