Nails and Other Instruments of Death
As I watch my son fall asleep just miles from the New Orleans attack, I can’t help but contemplate the end of all things.
When the Majority Shouldn’t Rule
Many of the ancient world’s best and brightest—Plato and Aristotle in particular—held democracy to be among the worst possible forms of government because the great majority of men and women are ruled not by their reason but by their passions.
Ignore This Headline
may we avoid the misery of headlines as much as possible and avail ourselves of the riches of the Western tradition, whose great authors and artists give glimpses of that Beauty, ever ancient, ever new.
Fear and Loathing in America
Abominations like mass shootings lead us to look for causes in the form of racism, of guns, of media distortions, but we must resist the quick-draw realm of social media takes and their inability to distinguish between proximate and remote causes.
Life in the Logical Ruins
In today’s public discourse, all opposition is perceived as contradictory: One can support either a conservative politician or the dignity of women. One can eat meat or be environmentally conscious. There’s no third option.
We Awoke and Were Angels
In our current Woke culture, the body ceases to be determinative for human life, and we become some perverted vision of the angelic.