Philosophy

The Mighty Power of Human Resilience 42
- Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 18, 2025
A year ago, had you stood in front of Mountain Inn and Suites on the outskirts of Erwin, Tenn., to your left you would have seen four or five small businesses and some storage units, flanked by a Baptist church. To your right would be a Mexican restaurant, Panchos & Amigos, joined to a convenience
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Balancing Truth in the Digital Age 27
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 5, 2025
Most of us are aware of how dangerous misinformation can be, whether it comes from “official” mainstream media sources or from the distant hinterlands of the internet blogosphere. Neither mainstream media nor alternative media, neither the left nor right, has a monopoly on truth, and oftentimes getting the real facts requires a careful process of
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Why Friendship Is Essential to Cultural Renewal 30
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 20, 2025
Suppose you want to change the world for the better. Where to begin? One place is friendship. We are, as Aristotle teaches, social animals, designed to live in community, to build societies where each plays a role as part of a whole, and to find meaning through relationships. Aristotle suggests in the “Nicomachean Ethics” that eudaimonia
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The Debt We Owe to Suffering 41
- Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized
- August 15, 2025
In L. B. Cowan’s “Streams in the Desert,” a book of meditations given me by a friend, a recent entry has this line: “Who can estimate how much we owe to our suffering and pain?” That’s a sentiment that runs against the American grain in this century. In 2023, for instance, some 60 million Americans sought treatment
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Bridging the Political Rift One Face-to-face Conversation at a Time 38
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 8, 2025
It’s commonly observed that political vitriol is stronger than ever before in recent memory. The left thinks the right is a bunch of Nazis ready to Sieg Heil to Trump whenever possible, while the right thinks the left is a bunch of tone-deaf, cross-dressing terrorists, ready to riot on cue. The great rift is growing
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‘To Labor Is to Pray’ – Reviving Craftsmanship in American Life 18
- Culture, Economics, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 5, 2025
I’ve had a nagging feeling in recent months that I’m a bit of a dinosaur in a certain area of fashion. The reason? I still wear a wristwatch. By wristwatch, I don’t mean a minicomputer screen strapped above my hand from which I get texts and monitor my heartbeat and blood pressure (or whatever else
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