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The Concept of 'Standoff' in Philosophy

Academic Credentials

A Theory of Hell

Incarnation

On the Fear of Death

Real and Merely Apparent Incoherence on the Left

Minimalist and Maximalist Modes of Holiday Impersonality

Safe Speech

It Used to be Hard to be a Good Catholic

The Day Bukowski Discovered John Fante

Some 'Tweets' on Free Speech

Is it Rational to be Politically Ignorant?

Spiritual Mountebanks

When the Exercise of Rights Contributes to their Loss

Anarchism is to Political Philosophy . . .

A Mistake of Memory

What is Potentiality?

On 'Reaching Out' and 'Educate'

Masculinity

Euthyphro Dilemma, Divine Simplicity, and Modal Collapse

Radical Islam's Threat to the Left

The Euthyphro Problem, Islam, and Thomism

The Danger of Appeasing the Intolerant

How to Tell the Truth without being Truthful

Wokery and the Double Denial

Bertrand Russell: Empiricism is Self-Refuting

Annoying Habits of Some Philosophers

The Meaning of 'Asshole'

Moving From Religion to Philosophy

Christianity Civilizes. Islam?

War, Torture, and the Aporetics of Moral Rigorism

Robert Paul Wolff on Anarchism and Marxism

Notes on Anarchism III

Notes on Anarchism II

Notes on Anarchism I

Belief in God

'Islamophobia' and 'Hoplophobia'

The Second Amendment and the Origin of Rights

Chess is Racist!

Notes on David Mamet

Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion

Two Related Political Mistakes

Secular Self-Deception about the Value of Life

Old Mountaineers and Bold Mountaineers

Robert Paul Wolff on Benjamin Netanyahu

A Problem of Evil for Atheists

The Holocaust Argument for God's Existence

Hitchens, Death, and Literary Immortality

J. P. Moreland on Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism

The Lapse of Laïcité

Is Neuroscience Relevant to Understanding Prayer and Meditation?

Why I will not Support my Alma Mater

Galen Strawson versus Nicholas Humphreys on Consciousness

Bull Meets Shovel: Could Consciousness be a Conjuring Trick?

Intimations of Elsewhere Dismissed

Thomas Nagel on the Mind-Body Problem

A Quest for Transcendence Gone Wrong

Geraldo Rivera and the Musket Canard

I Get a Rise out of Aristotle

A Commonplace Blog

Thomas Aquinas Against Open Borders

No Day without Cultural Appropriation

How Not to Define 'Atheism'

Thinking Meat?

9/11

Alain on Monasticism

Lev Kopelev on the Horrors of Communism

Politics as Polemics

Like a Moth to the Flame

Envy, Jealousy, Schadenfreude

Norms in Nature?

On Hairsplitting

Roberto Rossellini's "Socrates"

Thoughts in and of Ancient Lycia

Edith Stein: Faith, Reason, and Method

Beware of Projecting . . .

Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America

Would Schopenhauer Allow Comments?

Who Am I?

'Post-Truth'

Truth and Accuracy

The Christian View of Death and Immortality

Emmett Till

The Professor-Student Non-Aggression Pact

Susan Sontag on the Art of the Aphorism

Toleration Misunderstood

Requite Evil with Good?

Victor Davis Hanson on Tribalism

To Write Well, Read Well

Political Action

Voluntary Segregation

Krauthammer's Fundamental Law Repealed

Galen Strawson on Zombies

A Socialist Argument for Border Control

Politics and Philosophy

Sam Harris and the Problem of Disagreement

The Roles of Doubt in Philosophy and in Religion

Nietzsche on Conviction

DIE

Is Nothing Sacred?

Life and Thought

Should We Discuss our Differences?

Philosophy and Polemics: The Difference

We Must Work with Atheists to Defeat the Left

What is Philosophy Good For?

The Leftist as Denier of Distinctions

Five Grades of Agnosticism

Can You Get Through the Next Hour?

An Anti-Gun Argument No Longer Heard

Kant on Suicide

The Most Powerful Argument Against Religious Faith Ever?

Vatican II 'Reforms' Disastrous . . .

On Her Deathbed

'Nuclear' Thoughts on Bob Dylan's Birthday

Strange Anti-Epicurean Bedfellows

About Whataboutism

Negativity: The Spirit of the Left

Virtue, Vice, and Mastery

Is it Sometimes Rational to Believe on Insufficient Evidence?

Will Science Put Religion out of Business?

The Childless as Anthropological Danglers

On the Water Front

Radix Omnium Malorum

Why Am I So Happy?

Unusual Experiences and the Problems of Overbelief and Underbelief

On Blaming the Victim

Why are People so Easy to Swindle?

Tongue and Pen

The Pragmatic and the Evidential

Juan Donoso Cortés on Never Trumpers as Una Clasa Discutidora

Why Did Communism Fail?

Jerking Toward Social Collapse

Friendships Superficially Satisfying

Trump, Adultery, Morality, and the Alinskyite Left

Argumentum ad Lapidem?

Expressive Individualism

Is Graduate School Really That Bad?

California Regulators Go After Sriracha

It Pays to Publish . . .

Academentia in excelsis

On Prejudice

Consciousness is an Illusion . . .

Can Consciousness be Explained?

Beware the Ides of March

Inheritance and Appropriation

Do You Really Want to Teach at a University?

On Independent Thinking

Books and Reality

The Eremitic Option

Thomas Merton on Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Badiou: Bad Philosophy

God as Human Projection?

A 'Progressive' Paradox

Ingredients of Happiness

Bullshitting and Lying

Is Sin a Fact?

Running as Equalizer?

Thought, Action, Dogma, and De Maistre

Every Generation Faces a Barbarian Threat in its Own Children

Polity and Comity

Left, Right, Gender, and Sex

The Lewis Trilemma

Abdication of Authority by University Admins?

The Misuse of Superlatives (The Brokaw Fallacy)

On 'Illegal Alien' and 'Illegal Immigrant'

The Question of the Meaning of Life

Homo Homini Lupus

Four Notes on the Gun Debate for the Reasonable

Can Philosophy be Debated?

ARs and Cattle Cars

Simone Weil in the Light of Plato

Elias Canetti on Greta Thunberg

The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover

The Paltry Mentality of the Copy Editor

Global Warming: Questions that Need Distinguishing

Latin or Anglo-Saxon?

'Spirituality' and 'Religion'

Simone Weil on False Gods

Of 'Blind Review' and Pandora's Box

A Sketch of Armstrong's Naturalism

Remembering Albert Camus

Galen Strawson on God