The Iconic Midwest

In some ways the work of Jacob Burckhardt is a strange place to start for a book interested in the philosophy of history. Burckhardt himself...

Meaning in History Karl Löwith University of Chicago Press, 1949 Löwith begins his book, sensibly enough, by defining his topic. He is wr...

Norfolk, VA Four members of the Old Dominion University student body were publicly executed and their corpses summarily expelled from the...

Now a Jewish artist cannot perform at a music festival unless he proves he's the "right kind of Jew." - Jewish groups protest...

From the wisdom of Justice Kennedy in the Obergefell dictum: Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to reli...

Shit gets you down. A lot of shit gets you way down. And sometimes sports doesn't give you a break from shit, it only piles it higher an...

There are good reasons why someone like Cardinal Raymond Burke would have made a terrible pope. At the crux of the matter there is the marke...

And now for something completely different... I've actually been contemplating putting together a philosophy tinged podcast which wo...

This is the straw that broke my back. I'm sorry but it is impossible for any thinking person to be against people having government i...

God only knows how anyone in this country can sleep when we don't know if the redhead from the Wendy's commercials has the correct ...

The long awaited vote is on in Scotland. I have absolutely no dog in the question of an independent Scotland. Not a one. Oh, I think there i...

....here is exhibit #7688 : That link takes you to a website called "The Moderate Voice" [sic], which these days apparently beli...

I used to think that description only accounted for 10-15% of the political left in this country, and the vast majority of it confined to th...

I have often lamented that we live in an era of degraded journalism. Journalists of today are less independent, less articulate, less well r...