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July 24, 2016

Finding Intellectual Grifters: Five Rules that Help

So called intellectuals can be a snobby bunch refusing to consider their own opinions and...

July 23, 2016

City Upon a Hill: Salt Better Have Savor

They say the camera adds ten pounds, a situation I cannot afford just now. Worse,...

July 22, 2016

Finding a Good Plumber

Until I met Russ Keene I was at the mercy of the most wicked class...

July 21, 2016

This is the most important election of my lifetime? Nuts!

Evidently I have lived in very bad times. Since I was a little boy, I...

July 20, 2016

Truth Matters: And Almost Nobody Always Tells It

Tell the truth. My dad told this to me as a boy and he...

July 19, 2016

On Hating Haters

There are few sins more satisfying than hating hateful people. The racists on my social...

July 18, 2016

Terrifically Terrible Prayer

Let's not talk politics. Let's talk prayer and not prostituting prayer in the service of...

July 17, 2016

The Worst Argument For a Bad Candidate: Irrational Hope

How was he doing? "Tolerable," was the old man's response. If you are a Christian...

July 16, 2016

Bad Arguments Make Good Men Do Bad Things

Bad arguments make good men do bad things. Even a very good man can outthink...

July 15, 2016

Hated for Our Virtues: France, USA, and the World

God save France and the West. If enough people hate France enough to die to...

July 14, 2016

Thinking as a Woman is Necessary to Think Well (Theaetetus)

Sometimes one has to say something so obviously good and true that saying it sounds...

July 13, 2016

Knowing Isn’t So Easy (Theaetetus)

Everyone knows until some smart guy comes and confuses them. Sometimes he is just a...

July 12, 2016

Breathless Waiting: from Abstaining to Chastity

To love absolutely one must learn to say no to love. This is not a...

July 11, 2016

I am not Howard Roark or Mark Studdock

I am told that Ayn Rand did not like CS Lewis. Yet having read Fountainhead over this...

July 10, 2016

Love’s Long Game (Race in America)

True love is willing to wait for the beloved and in our broken world, love's...

July 09, 2016

Saying: “I do not know.”

Racism. Dead African-Americans. Dead officers. These are bad things. The temptation is to use stronger...

July 08, 2016

We Cannot Lose: A Thought Based on an Artificial Parrot

My Nana was a strong woman surviving a childhood that would send most people spiraling...

July 07, 2016

“I kind of ruined my life by going to college.” College, Debt, and Administrative Bloat

Look at the cover of Consumer Reports and consider whether you should sign that loan document at...

July 06, 2016

Not Even for the Pastor’s Kid: Equality Under the Law

When I was a boy, I was sitting next to the collection plate during Sunday...

July 05, 2016

She Gives Us All Beauty and a Name

There is nothing that can be done about it now. She is dead and buried...

July 04, 2016

God, Patriotism, and Books in School

Be of good cheer! If you are discouraged about the Presidential choices we have today,...

July 03, 2016

Names Will Never Hurt Us (Cratylus)

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. How did...

July 02, 2016

My Life Long Pal: Three Things to Learn from Daniel Reynolds

Today is Daniel's birthday. . . not the prophet, but my brother. My mother used...

July 01, 2016

With Eyes Wide Open: Death Comes to All (Phaedo)

A good man dies well, a great one makes his death matter. A leader looks...

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