Life after the lockdowns: Re-embracing our social nature
During the COVID-19 pandemic, pressure was put on the federal government to override the rights of the states and impose sweeping lockdown policies. This was only partially the case, since most states...
View ArticleThe antidote to Americans’ crisis of ‘meaning’
What do you want? Or, better yet, what do you want from what you want? It turns out, more than money or praise, humans yearn for a purpose. And new data indicate Americans are lacking that meaning and...
View ArticleBeyond material prosperity, economic freedom fosters virtue and relationship
In defending the cause of economic freedom, it can be easy to focus only on the material fruits, whether it be new innovations and efficiencies or the ongoing expansion of opportunity and abundance....
View ArticleDoes Hollywood love beauty more than profit?
Beauty has the power to spellbind everyone—the proof is Canadian director Denis Villeneuve. His last three movies, Dune (2021), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and Arrival (2016), have earned him a...
View ArticleThe twilight of Christianity, the loss of authority, and our fragmented selves
Political theorists have engaged in much debate concerning the “quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,” such quarrel evidence of the opposing claims of the two worlds. Leo Strauss, the best...
View ArticleRacelessness is the future of justice
What if the answer to racial tensions in America lay in the removal of race as a necessary identifier of any human person? This question frames a new theory put forward by Sheena Mason, assistant...
View ArticleThe Anarchists Is a Case Study in the Decadence of Autonomy
I have a reasonably high tolerance for uncomfortable television and movies, maybe a higher tolerance than I should, but the first thing I would say about the HBO Max series The Anarchists is that it is...
View ArticleGetting Justice Right Is Harder than We Think
The question of justice is fundamental to human nature and all human cultures. Little children have an immediate sense of fair and unfair, just and unjust. The theme of justice permeates myth and...
View ArticleWhen Human Flourishing Becomes Human Suffering
When the Berlin Wall fell, it was a commonplace observation that there were more Marxists in New York City than in the USSR. If the new Oxford University Press book Theater & Human Flourishing is...
View ArticleCities: An Engine of Progress and Civilization
What is progress? How and where does it occur? Such questions are not easy to answer. Debates about the nature of progress have given rise to entire theories of historical development. Continue...
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