Western Civilization

Using Aristotle’s 3 Principles of Logic to Advance Our Knowledge 0
- Featured, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- July 14, 2026
One of the big questions emerging from the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is what exactly it means to know something at all. While advanced AI models can present the appearance of knowledge and understanding, scratching below the conversational surface shows that these models severely lack the capacity for what philosophers have considered knowledge. The
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Stay Sane and Save the Republic 1
- Culture, Education, Featured, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 13, 2026
I’ve marveled before about how statements of the past can read like today’s headlines, especially those like the following taken from the front flap of Martin L. Gross’ 1997 “The End of Sanity”: “At the University of Pennsylvania, separate dorms have been set up for minorities in the name of racial harmony….” “An apprehended mugger
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Mastering Technology the Amish Way 0
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Western Civilization
- July 10, 2026
In August 1945, the United States unleashed the power of the atom and leveled two Japanese cities. This new technology, the atomic bomb, brought an end to World War II, while simultaneously kicking off an arms race that would last nearly 50 years. The Soviet Union could not allow the U.S. to maintain its monopoly
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Why Poetry Should Join Your Literary Diet 0
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Western Civilization
- July 10, 2026
In the summer of 2023, I fell in love with poetry. I was living overseas, struggling to navigate a job teaching English and a new life in a third-world country. Amidst the external and internal chaos, Saturdays were a reprieve. I’d mount my moped, drive to a nearby coffeehouse, and spend several hours reading and
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Rejecting Socialism While Restoring America’s Christian Roots 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Philosophy, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 9, 2026
In a recent article, Annie Holmquist maps out the twisting path leading eventually from liberalism to communism. She points to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address in which he declared, “Liberalism was inevitably pushed aside by radicalism, radicalism had to surrender to socialism, and socialism could not stand up to communism.” To avoid this slide, she urges a
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Voices of the Resistance 0
- Culture, Featured, Western Civilization
- July 7, 2026
In 2023, a group of individuals and organizations, with the most prominent at the time being psychologist, speaker, and writer Jordan Peterson, founded the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). The intention of this group was to counter the decline of Western civilization and put forward a positive agenda for the future. “We reject the inevitability
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