Philosophy

What Romanticism and Taylor Swift Have in Common 0
- Entertainment, Culture, Featured, Literature, MomThink, Philosophy
- May 1, 2024
Wherever you turn today, you’ll hear about Taylor Swift—her albums, tours, and dating life. For better or for worse, she has a sizeable impact on our culture. It’s no surprise, then, that her most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department, has hit a record number of sales, with 2.61 million debut units as the “best
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Reality Rejected: New NPR CEO Says ‘There Are Many Truths’6
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- April 29, 2024
Do encyclopedias like Wikipedia or news organizations like NPR exist to tell us the truth, to inform us about reality? Perhaps it’s not so simple anymore. The recent example of the former CEO of Wikimedia and new CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, is a case in point. A pair of Maher’s speeches have been making
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Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl on Collective Guilt 0
- History, Featured, Philosophy
- April 24, 2024
Only in movies and books is the line between good and evil people always clear. In The Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 2), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn immortalized these words: “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts.” Solzhenitsyn wrote those
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Why Karl Marx Desperately Needed Jordan Peterson’s Advice 6
- Economics, History, Philosophy
- April 24, 2024
As I make my way through Paul Kengor’s wonderful book The Devil and Karl Marx, numerous things stand out about the father of communism. It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s hard to imagine a more wretched human being than Karl Marx. It was almost as if all of the worst traits of humanity were
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How Our Culture of Artificiality Is Destroying Objective Reality 3
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- March 22, 2024
I believe it is possible to have common sense “educated” out of you, whether by formal schooling, by one’s culture, or both. When I was studying literature in college, professors would deride any literary interpretation that smelled of an “essentialist” view of morality, gender, race, or reality. What they meant by this fancy term (which
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Our Modern Existential Dilemma Dissolved With Francis Schaeffer 4
- Philosophy, Featured
- March 19, 2024
The angst felt by philosophers, the meaninglessness faced by even the greatest modern artists and musicians, and the rampant drug use and trail of despair and nihilism writ large in Western culture since the 1960s are some of the more obvious signs of the crisis faced by modern people. But the cause of this crisis—the
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