Cancel culture comes for Adam Smith
Daniel Klein writes for National Review Online about a particularly poor target for the cancel culture crowd. The political left often invokes “race” to intimidate its opponents when arguing against…
German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
Daniel Klein writes for National Review Online about a particularly poor target for the cancel culture crowd. The political left often invokes “race” to intimidate its opponents when arguing against…
Steve Fuller–an American philosopher who currently teaches at the University of Warwick in England–recently published an article that has ruffled academic feathers on both sides of the Atlantic. As the…
Five hundred years have passed since the obscure German monk Martin Luther launched what became known as the Protestant Reformation. But that 500-year-old event continues to play a role in…
Patrick Fletchall writes for the Federalist website about famous moments in history that ought to be rewritten to satisfy those on college campuses who can’t handle the truth. The purpose…
Listening to the news this morning, it occurred to me that a lot of bad decisions are being made because well-intending people are being given bad information. In other words,…
The Saluda Commissioners were taken to task for calling an illegal meeting. Reminiscent of Martin Luther, somebody tacked a notice to the police department door, and figured that would suffice.…
Regular readers already know mine so I’ll just list it: Martin Luther (1953) – Niall MacGinnis as Luther, David Horne as Duke Frederick of Saxony, and Philip Leaver as Pope…
John Locke?s treatise On Civil Government will undoubtably be on my list of the most significant books I?ve read this year. Locke?s work is heavily footnoted with the influence of…
While the neighborhoods are overrun with little monsters this evening, it’s good to remember a different knock, on a different door, on the same date 488 years ago. Besides the…
Paul, have you ever wondered if UNC grad students were following in the footsteps of radical right-wing fundamentalist Christian white male Martin Luther, instead of the forerunner of the Enlightenment…
David Brooks’ NYT column in today’s Raleigh News & Observer but also readable here, looks at a “natalist” movement of couples who are quite willingly raising large and growing families.…
Tom Morton, writing in the Casper WY Star-Tribune today (Casper! Yes, really!), turns a neat phrase in his headline, “Begone ghosts — here’s something really powerful” Ghosts, witches, slasher-movie mass…