Ken Ham is right. In his reading of Genesis, the earth is 6000 years old, humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and the creation and flood accounts in Genesis are literally and historically true. As Ham declares, “when you take away the foundation of the absolute authority of …
Authoritarianism. Ethnocentrism. Racism. Economic pain. Less education. Loss of prestige. Outsider. Government incompetence. These have all been explored as reasons why Trump’s supporters back him. Matthew MacWilliams, in an article in Vox in February, insists that a “voter’s gender, education, age, ideology, party identification, income, and race simply had no …
A flurry of articles, many from the pages at Salon, have attacked the Republican candidates for their attack on the moderators of the recent CNBC debate, and on the media in general. William Saletan, in Reality Sucks, insists the issue is not a division between the press and the public …
Several weeks back, a lot of ink was spilled on issues raised when Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis refused to provide marriage licenses because providing them to same-sex couples would make her implicit in their sinfulness. From the liberals came the rights of all individuals to partake in the rites of …
As some seem to want to tell it, when the nation was first formed, it was clear that the war could only be prosecuted successfully by a strong central government. Only with significant power of taxation to pay the soldiers fighting for our freedom, and the might to keep the …
Perhaps more important than those thrilling three words which precede it, “We the People”, are the four which follow, “of the United States.” This Constitution is forming a nation. Compare this with “the perpetual union between the states,” which the Articles of Confederation notes. A group of influential men gathered …
Our whole family sat around the television watching the concluding episode of The Fugitive. We each guessed who we thought had done the murder that the fugitive had spent so long pursuing while avoiding the law. Toward the end of the show, right before the commercial break, one of the …
When they found the body in the peat, one contingent went off to find Gil Cunningham to handle matters while the other went off to grab the witch they knew was responsible for the death. But Gil Cunningham, hero of a series of novels by Pat McIntosh, is a bit …
Ludwig Wittgenstein spent the first part of his career attempting to provide a definitive foundation for logic, meaning, and language. This work was best represented by Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, written with Bertrand Russell. In it they attempt to give mathematical precision to human experience. Wittgenstein was altered by his experiences in …
Capitalism and democracy are incompatible. Katerina once told me that democracy is a deception that the powerful offer to trick people into believing they have a voice in their government. She was a left-wing student of mine when I was teaching high school in Greece almost 40 years ago, and …