The Case for Moral Doubt
When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted.
Scotty Jenkins
· 6 min read
Philosophy
A collection of 109 posts
Deliberation, Not Boundaries — A Reply to Wessie du Toit
The greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself. In particular, it comes from the sheer volume and chaotic nature of that speech.
Nestor de Buen
· 7 min read
Misunderstanding Capitalism
This debate offered an opportunity to reflect on the respective merits of capitalism and socialism (the Jacobin representatives’ preferred alternative) and lessons from the past that might help us to build a better tomorrow.
Christopher Reuenthal
· 12 min read
Sex Through the Looking Glass
What began as a drive toward liberation thus becomes tyranny. What was normal becomes antisocial; what was malign becomes laudatory.
Howard Schwartz
· 5 min read
Poverty, Cosmopolitanism, and Historicism
Instead of emulating the Western experience, are increasingly pursuing indigenous paths to modernity.
Carl Ritter
· 8 min read
The Problem with Public Art
Great cultures of the past were built around grand unifying ideas.
David Lucas
· 8 min read
Non-Believers Are Turning to the Bible
There are nonbelievers, though, who turn to the Bible for advice and inspiration and are “cultural Christians” in a deeper sense.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Against the Demonisation of Drugs
Drugs are able to save lives and ruin them; enhance your mind and numb it; heal your body and destroy it.
Sana Al-Badri and Marco Vega
· 12 min read
Problems of Privilege — Lessons from the French Revolution
It has almost been forgotten that the concept of privilege, and critiques of privilege as the source of society’s ills, are nothing new in history.
Blake Smith
· 9 min read
Postmodern Creationism in Academia — Why Evergreen Matters
The central problem with the university administration’s opinion column was that none of the accusations were relevant to the fieldwork and research in question.
Norbert Francis
· 14 min read
Combating Creationism
In a world where blank-slatism, anti-vaccine rhetoric, myths about the effects of parenting, and climate change denial persist and even thrive.
Emily Willoughby
· 12 min read
The Oppression Flag — The Quarterback Whose Aim Was Untrue
But is it “oppression”? There has been a tendency in recent years to water down definitions of certain words and then to misapply them.
Susan Lehman
· 9 min read
Free Speech Needs Boundaries to Survive
It wouldn’t be misleading to say that the greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself.
Wessie du Toit
· 6 min read
From Ancient Times to the Present — Transferring Guilt Makes a Mockery of Justice
Transferring guilt across generations from ancient ancestors to their heirs was highly convenient for religious authorities.
T.M. Murray
· 12 min read
The Spirit of Centrism
All too often legitimate conversations about policy preference devolve into accusations of moral transgression.
Bo Winegard
· 10 min read