FORVM

A dorm-room critique of socialism answered — sophomorically

There’s a Haitian Creole term, “dechoukaj,” which is pretty much synonymous with the English word “uprooting,” though it carries somewhat…

Ethics is optics. The philosophy of ethic is the discourse of optics. The ethics of optics — the ethics of seeing — is infinite and…

Read The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton this weekend — a spiritual autobiography, a memoir of faith. It has already influenced my…

Responding to this post paragraph-by-paragraph is going to bring back some unpleasant memories of my prepubescent career haunting video…

Everything has sped up except our concepts, which lag behind. Philosophy has not responded to the pressure (the present) of technology…

Farmers counters GEICO with “moose realism.”

How to think the unthinkable.

The only way to avoid cheapening the life of the mind is by treating it as sacred. I am willing to risk Quixotism, anachronism, travesty…

What worries me is that the short-term consequences of technology will be — are — nothing compared to the long-term consequences: the total…

She is the one so often crossed and cursed by those who, rightly, ought to sing her praise, yet vilify her name and speak her ill. —…

The Martin Agency, a smart ad shop in Richmond, Virginia–of all places–has had the GEICO account for ages now, and they deserve it. Their…

If sinners can’t cast stones, who will?

The life of the countryside; of the small village or town is dying in France like it long ago died here in the U.S. This fact — this fact…

You can always tell a good reader by how assured they are in finding what to read next; how assuredly they move through a used bookstore…

Terrence Malick is more intelligent and more profound than his critics — by far. With the exception of Richard Brody and the late Roger…