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The Giving Tree: The Gift of the Enduring rather than the Trendy in Education
Education may be the kindling of a flame and not the filling of a vessel, but it is useless and possibly harmful to encourage young green limbs to burn before they dry and brown with age and training....
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Your Argument is Invalid
Conversations that end like this are downright stupid: Rational Interlocutor: So for these reasons, I believe… [insert tenable position here]. Joe Schmo: Dude, I totally respect your position, but...
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How to Be a Libertarian (Without Losing Your Soul)
1. Believe that you are one. From a libertarian perspective, there is no reason to have a strictly materialist conception of the human person. Avoid emphasizing matter over mind and vice versa. A...
View ArticleBottum’s Down for Marriage
Joseph Bottum’s recent Commonweal piece “The Things We Share” was disappointing, to say the least. It’s frightening to read these words from a former First Things chief editor: “I DON’T MEAN to hide...
View ArticleTruth and Government
The underlying assumption in much of American politics is that government knows best. It is rarely stated explicitly—for reasons of political expediency, no doubt—but therein lies the problem:...
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Socrates Rises with Christ
Is there any way to bring political philosophy and revelation, Athens and Jerusalem, into a coherent, non-contradictory relation to each other without undermining the integrity of either? The issue is...
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How the West Won—but “Western Civ” Lost
This article appears in the Spring 2014 issue of the Intercollegiate Review. Check out the rest of the issue right here. This essay is adapted from How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph...
View ArticleThe Tricky Thing About Science
I’ll admit that in the past I’ve hyperbolically called the sciences evil. Not because I don’t accept the Theory of Evolution or because I see faith and reason as antagonistic, but because it’s often...
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Science and Christian Belief
We often encounter the proponent of atheism touting “science” generally as some kind of point on their side of the argument. “Religious adherents held back progress while secularists gave us science...
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The No-Nonsense Way to Maintain Your Religious Convictions
For the Christian believer, there are inevitable periods of loneliness, questioning, and distance from God. We may be able to repeat the promises of God to anyone who inquires, but there is a profound...
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French Revolution vs. the American Revolution, Part Two: Rebellion vs....
As a lover of philosophy, I have a high regard for abstract reasoning. If an idea is worth accepting, then it should be subjected to rigorous critique by the most powerful adversaries available....
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You Can Argue with a Progressive: Reason, Natural Law, and the University
Sarcophagus depicting the Labors of Hercules. Cropped photo courtesy of Mary Harrsch. I sometimes find myself resonating with Leontius’s failed attempt, as reported in Plato’s Republic, to avoid...
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Is Your Reason Reasonable?
Image by Antranias via Pixabay. I’m not sure about any of you, but for all of the topics that seem to steal headlines and talking points lately these days, nearly all of them demonstrate that we have a...
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ISIS the Irrational
This article appears in the Fall 2015 issue of the Intercollegiate Review. Check out the rest of the issue here. Why does the Islamic State (ISIS) behave in the strange ways it does? What inspires it...
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