As Parents Write Tuition Checks to Behemoth State
Robert C. Koons, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has written a piece titled “Dark Satanic Mills of Mis-Education: Some Proposals for Reform” in Humanitas. The problems at...
View ArticleFriday Roundup, March 29
The current Liberty Law Talk is with Sam Gregg on his newest book, Becoming Europe. Mac Owens reviews this week for Law and Liberty the 2013 Bancroft Prize book Lincoln’s Code by John Fabian Witt....
View ArticleTherapeutists as Teachers of Evil
In the year of my birth, which now seems to me a very long time ago, C. S. Lewis wrote a short and incisive essay entitled The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment (link is no longer available). In this...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis & Leviathan
When I first heard the Zac Brown Band’s popular single “Chicken Fried,” my wife had to endure another one of my rants about how ridiculous contemporary country music has become. Short of including a...
View ArticleThe Data Driven Life
A couple of years ago, Sprint rolled out a new advertising campaign touting the company’s unlimited data plan for the iPhone 5. The campaign, no doubt, reflected a well-researched judgment about what...
View ArticleHow Not to Become a Dragon
In C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), the troublesome Eustace Scrubb, shirking his work, wanders off, only to find himself in the presence of a dragon. And not knowing the ways of...
View ArticleThe Virtues of On Reading Well
In 2012, a writer for The Atlantic brought to readers’ attention the decline of virtues in our vocabulary. Over the last hundred years, people were writing less and less about sincerity, patience, or...
View ArticleChristian Humanism: A Path Not Taken
Alan Jacobs’ title—The Year of Our Lord 1943—is deliberately old-fashioned and evocative. It is Christian, of course—the phrase articulates history along a Christological axis—but of a rather formal...
View ArticleWhy I Am A Natural Lawyer
I am not a lawyer. I’m a political theorist, trained at the overlap of political science and philosophy. Still, I’m a proponent of natural law. Indeed, I have been since I first read the great English...
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