Loyalty to Moral Principles, Not People — I couldn’t tell you the exact date, or even the specific infraction committed. I do remember the air of tension. …

Matt Walsh on Dr. Phil hinted at it, but it needs to be specifically articulated. — Why should we be concerned with the gender debate? Because gender is not some throw-away word or concept. It is fundamental to our understanding of humanity, and its elimination as a category would have devastating effects on our psychic development and ability to communicate with each other. I watched an…

How did a tiny tribe of desert nomads become so important to history? — Of all the tribes of people, why is it that a group of pastoral tribal nomads, who were minorities then and minorities now, seem to have such an enduring presence in our world? Because ideas and the details matter. …

Mapping Out Our Journey Toward Universal Human Equality — This is the first part of a series where I explore different aspects, events, and ingredients necessary for the concept of universal human equality. Not being the normal expectation throughout the majority of human history, I wanted to understand where the concept came from and how it has come…

Founders Quote of the Week — This quote is taken from Abraham Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg. Now he isn’t a Founder, but I’ll take a little liberty with the phrase if we’ll all agree that he is at least a towering figure of the nation and its history. The speech was a memorial for the men…

History as oppression and oppression only — I came across this quote while reading a book on thought reform during China’s Cultural Revolution and it helped to explain a lot of what we experienced in the summer of 2020. “Punish the past to warn the future” is incredibly familiar. It’s a tactical process by which old Tweets…

Redefining words and concepts is a cult tactic — Although it happened something like thirty-five years ago, I distinctly remember the scene. A young girl with a brown pony tail, sitting on a wooden bench, looking at me with contempt. I was in elementary school (I think) and she was probably in her early twenties. I had just started…

Founders Quote of the Week — I’m taking a bit of a detour here, if you can call it that. This quote was not from anyone we can call a Founding Father, but from Alexis de Tocqueville. Alexis, along with Gustave de Beaumont, was sent to America by the French Government to study the American prison…

Two polar opposite world views — Getting to know ideas at their deepest levels is something I love to do. It helps me to uncover what is going on at the surface. …