We live in desperate times. I’m not talking the usual American political desperation, which is too often ginned up…
The biggest problem for humanism continues to be its name. Aren’t humanists all about…
Few have heard of the movement usually called humanism, even though it is well…
Western thinkers have long searched for the “unmoved mover,” meaning . . . some sort of god, or, at…
As the sacred center of Greek society, the Temple of Apollo at Delphi has long represented the core of European thought…
Battling meta-narratives. Say what you will about postmodernism, but the po-mo concept of narratives as…
Like many others, I have in the past several days had difficulty looking away from the…
The cliche that has come down to us is that Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” That phrasing…
Note: Below is my adaptation of Marcus Aurelius’ words, Book 8:1–8:
Most Americans are centrists to a little tad left on social issues. Poll after poll shows that. Sure, we must fight the…