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07, 2018
Populism: The Long Con
Populism is an old trick. It’s been around since the earliest democracies. Plato, Aristotle and all the classical thinkers wrote about it and rightly condemned it, understanding that it would naturally end with a demagogue.
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07, 2018
Capsule Introduction to Capitalism and Socialism
Socialism arose historically as a response to capitalism. Its point of departure is the contention that capital is a social product—the fruit of countless hours/days/years of labor expended by hundreds of millions of people—and therefore that it should be under social control, i.e., under the control of the whole society
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06, 2018
Just War Theory
Ryan Jenkins from 1000-Word Philosophy gives an account of just war theory. War is a profoundly destructive institution, yet most
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06, 2018
On the Precipice
Like many others, I sometimes feel paralyzed by the enormity of the environmental challenge. How to break through this?
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06, 2018
The Worth of a State: Tribalism versus Individuality
Man’s commonest weakness, [is] his aversion to being unpleasantly conspicuous, pointed at, shunned, as being on the unpopular side.
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06, 2018
Against Term Limits
Guillaume LeBlanc from New American Perspective takes issue with President Trump's suggestion of adding Congressional term limits.
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05, 2018
Faith vs. Reason?
By: Hendrik van der Breggen For some people, the relationship between faith and reason is like oil and water—they don’t
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05, 2018
What Is Truth?: On the Need for an Old Paradigm
By: Richard Oxenberg I. Introduction: What Is Truth? In the Gospel of John, Jesus says to Pontius Pilate: “I was
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05, 2018
Cultural Anglicanism: A Pleasing Illusion
By: Glen Paul Hammond The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.G.K. Chesterton Sonia Maria
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05, 2018
Heidegger, Metaphysics, and Wheelbarrows: A Poetic Introduction to Heidegger’s Being and Time
By: Richard Oxenberg so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickensWilliam Carlos