Why can’t we all agree that the sexes are different, the differences won’t go away, and denial and suppression aren’t the answer? People talk about confronting stereotypes and so on, but the evident effect of […]
People have been talking about integralism recently. What is it, and what should we know about it? In a short discussion I can only give my own interpretation, but will start with a definition by […]
Why have people become so crazy when there is so much information and so many experts? To answer, we need to know the basic understandings people rely on. These are evidently leading them astray. So […]
People who don’t like the pro-life movement often say it can’t really be concerned about the baby. Its concern stops at birth, they say, so it must have a hidden agenda, like oppressing women—especially poor […]
Today’s electronic communications have fragmented our world into myriad images and soundbites that can be reassembled to make anything seem real. That has made it a paradise for con-men, propagandists, and insane people. If you’re […]
Last month I complained about formal expertise. Although often very useful, I said, it can be blind to obvious realities. The problem is that it wants its authority to seem indisputably objective and reliable. For […]
We live in the Age of the Expert. There are reasons for that. We mostly work for big organizations now, and all aspects of our lives depend on them. Big organizations have their own way […]
The Supreme Court’s vision of a society in which each defines his own “concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life” has been realized all too thoroughly. What […]
Military historians talk about the “fog of war,” the impossibility of knowing what’s going on during the confusion of battle. The idea can be extended to the struggles of daily life—that’s why we talk about […]
Women find men puzzling, and men say they don’t understand women. So the relation between the sexes is evidently a part of human life in which clear understanding is hard to come by. Academic expertise […]
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