Science, Self-Deification, and Gnosticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark”
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" provides a springboard for reflecting on the problems of scientism, especially the temptation to self-deification and, what Eric Voegelin terms, modern Gnosticism.
The Loneliness of the Long Dissonant Reader
Or, "Can you hear me in the back? Why don't we all move in a little closer..." My latest column in the absolutely essential...
Naive Experts: Economists and the Real World
If your doctor had this same track record of diagnosing and treating disease, you’d be dead by now.
Happy 75th Birthday, Carl Oglesby!
Look around and you’ll see that the seeds planted by the New Left have not all fallen on hard ground. I think maybe they’re ready to flower.
The ADM of MLB, R.I.P.
Might Steinbrenner be to professional baseball what an agribusiness is to farming?
The Cassock
Today most symbols are gone, and gone with them is the sense of community cohesiveness that they used to communicate.
Egalitarian Western Liberals & The July 20 Plot
Though he had passionately opposed Hitler from the very beginning and had striven to protect the helpless from the SS, neither Americans nor English shed many tears for Moltke when he was put to death by the Führer’s henchmen in 1945.
The Boy Scouts Win One for Moms, Apple Pie, and the...
If all groups were forced to comply with the anti-discrimination policies of the federal government, conceivably churches could not exclude unbelievers, wine clubs would have to be open to tee-totalers, and neighborhood associations would be forced to include non-residents.
Fired for the Natural Law, Part II: Toward a Marriage of...
Our conception of nature is too thin, too reliant upon the conceptions of the ancient Stoics, and so requires the more robust visions of Aristotle and Aquinas if moral debate is not to become intractable.