Why do we keep finding ourselves at war? Why can’t all nations agree to a rules-based international order?
We know now that the FBI’s infamous Richmond Memo, targeting traditional Catholics as potential terrorists and comparing them with Islamists, was not merely the product of a few rogues in a single field office, as the agency had claimed. Multiple offices were involved in drafting it, and it was distributed to over a thousand employees.
Marco Casanova interviews me for the Desert Streaming Podcast, October, 2024
The word “philosophy” comes from the Greek words for love of wisdom. Often, though, what we call philosophy isn’t really love of wisdom, but merely love of unsettling received opinions. This love is often connected with contempt for any beliefs we can’t give reasons for.
“The science is finally settled on this one,” reads this magnificent specimen of reasoning: “people who consistently make good decisions enjoy an undeniable and unfair advantage in life.” No, it is not a satire.
Ismism – four syllables, “izzum izzum” -- is the bad mental habit of criticizing a proposition not on its own terms, but in terms of the “ism” which one takes it to express.
