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J.D. Vance, winner of the 2022 Republican primary for Ohio Senate, discusses his book, Hillbilly Elegy, and its influence on his politics. Growing up in the city of Middletown, Ohio, Vance learned about the impacts of globalist trade policies first-hand as he experienced the impact economic devastation had on his family and community. His once thriving blue-collar […]
Does capitalism corrode culture? I think the answer is yes and no.
There are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would agree with St. Augustine that âan unjust law is no law at all.â
Remembering a legendary teacher
Has Terry Gilliamâs film version of âDon Quixoteâ been worth the decades-long wait?
To understand public opinion and political behavior, you need to think like a scientist.
We don't talk about the traditional virtues anymore. Is that a blessing or a curse?
We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge.
A recent study claimed that Harry Potter's millennial readers are (in the words of one interpreter) "more open to diversity and ... less likely to support the use of deadly force or torture, more politically active and more likely to have had a negative view of the Bush administration." Science fiction and fantasy novelist John C. Wright says otherwise.
The cult of celebrity has damaged more than its fair share of Western culture, and it falls to students to resist this wrecking ball, for new wine must be placed in new wineskins. I do not mean to demand more dreadful blogs against Ms. Cyrus or Mr. Thicke; those we have in abundance. Rather, the most […]
During the past three years or so, as an undergraduate government major, my study of political science has been carried out in a very liberal arts fashion, with concentrations of political philosophy, American politics, and comparative politics. However, within this field, my concentration has been in political philosophy. A question that has emerged within our particular […]
Recently, the University of Florida has been making headlines throughout the country. Why? Not for its stellar academics, nor for its exhilarating football performance last Saturday (65-0 Gators). Instead there has been significant controversy over a serial attacker on UF’s campus. Over the last week, five young women have been attacked near or on campus. […]
It’s a lonely world out there for young conservatives on campus. Finding friends is hard enough, but finding love? Surely that’s impossible. It’s a shared assumption among conservative students that they will find their significant other through church or other institutions rather than at school. The only problem with this strategy is that the churches […]
Acclaimed author and professor of government and philosophy J. Budziszewski talks with students about political correctness, academic freedom, religious conversion, and why every thinking person should pursue the liberal arts.
Scanning a typical college classroom, one observes a sea of laptops. Upon closer examination, many of these laptops are not showing class notes or readings, but rather Facebook, ESPN, or various shopping websites. Even those students who are paying attention, though, are not truly thinking about the material; most of the time they indiscriminately write […]
âThe needs of the soul can for the most part be listed in pairs of opposites which balance and complete one another.â âSimone Weil This semester marks the first time I have taken math in four years. Normally that prospect would terrify me, especially considering I was no all-star at calculus in high school. Instead, […]
Warfare is as old as humanity itself. No intervening philosophy, religion, or corrupting civilization had to enter the scene to convince man to use violence to obtain his ends or satisfy his urges. However, the idea of standards and rules that ought to govern the start of a conflict as well as its execution is a […]
People say they donât like politics because âboth sides can never agree on anything.â But is there anything that can ever achieve universal agreement? Take the now-infamous ice bucket challenge sponsored by the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Association. For the last few weeks, the Internet has been completely consumed by videos of people dumping buckets of water over […]
Concerning the question of alcohol, I have been told one too many times to “Drink responsibly.” It is not that these everyday advice peddlers lack good intentions; they simply lack good advice. Drink, both the noun and the verb, needs no explanation here, but responsibly as an adverb and responsibility as a noun must receive […]
Even the bravest intellectuals often become timid when it comes to defending the works of Karl Marx. Indeed, Marxâs constant failures in historical analysis and predictions largely discredit his theoretical hypothesis. First, Marx predicted a wave of communist revolutions in 1830. After realizing that his prediction was well off the mark, he tried again in […]
Few Protestant theologians keep my attention anymore. Excluding, of course, the great Anglicans Divines who mindfully left room for the saints next to the lot of us miserable sinners. Even in my most Evangelical days, I always abhorred Calvinâs coldness. His followers on the Continent and their Puritan brethren in England I found were always […]
