The Universal Structure of Storytelling
Storytelling is then—in every era and every culture—a dramatization of the everlasting war between the princesses and the tigers.
Moral Philosophy
21 articles
The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds
Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity.
Carl Th. Dreyer's 'Day of Wrath' and the Power of the Punished
It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven.
The Futility of Guilt-Based Advocacy
Your accountability is just your portion of the mob’s.
Religious Progressivism
It is not only religious “zealots” who get obsessed about good and evil. All human beings do.
Is Secular Humanism a Religion?
In terms of moral rules, secular humanism is indistinguishable from a religion.
Suspicion and the Corruption of the Liberal Mind
Suspicious reading is applied to any and every medium as well as every form of individual expression.
The Case for Moral Doubt
When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted.
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson — Heroes for Moral Realism
I see very little promise in grounding a moral realism (insofar as such a thing is ultimately a viable project) in terms of evolutionary fitness, and much more promise is taking Harris’ tack.