Commentary Liberal arts education, as I experienced it at Antioch College in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was aimed at opening students’ minds to the intellectual life of Western culture. Students were asked to consider such questions as “What counts as a good life?”, “How do people’s ideas and actions differ from place to…
Richard Rorty’s Cheerful Contempt for What Transcends Him
Commentary The deconstructionist impulse comes in a variety of flavors, from bitter to cloyingly sweet, and it can be made to serve a wide range of philosophical outlooks. That is part of what makes it so dangerous. One of the most beguiling and influential American deconstructionists was the philosopher Richard Rorty (1931–2007). In his early…
Truth and Her Twin, Part 2: Mendacium Writ Large
We looked in Part 1 at the mythological origins of Truth (Veritas) and Lies (Mendacium). We established that they were like twins: sometimes very difficult to distinguish between one and the other. And we made the point, too, that Mendacium, because she was footless, was immobile and also unbalanced. If we think through what this…
True Objective Journalism
Kudos to the Editorial Board for providing the framework for Americans to intelligently make the choice between Good and Evil. Your thoughts and direction are a prime example of true objective journalism, which has been disregarded by an overwhelming majority of the Media [“A Time for Choosing: A Test for Our Souls,” published in the…
Truth and Her Twin, Part 1: Which One Is Real?
The history of twins and our fascination with them is legendary. Although the Bible doesn’t explicitly say so, Cain and Abel are often regarded as twins; and even if they weren’t, Esau and Jacob, a bit later in the Genesis narrative, definitely were. Interestingly, it also says in the Book of Malachi that God loved…
Political Survival in 2021 America
Now that we have seen the complete and utter takeover of the electoral process by the Democrat Party, and now that we have seen that the Dems will stop at nothing to push forward their radical anti-American agenda, where do conservatives go? What is our pathway forward? I thought that surely people would stand up…
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