Metaphysics

Is America an accident? A freak of Nature?  Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design? I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of...

(This is an essay by Paul Ludwig in the Claremont Institute's Review of Books Spring 2020, entitled "Public Spiritedness". about Delba Wintrop's posthumously published Aristotle: Democracy...

In 2016 I published an essay "Darwin Agrees with God About Man's Thirst for Liberty" and then in 2019 modified it and published it...

God told the prophet, Samuel, this is what would happen if the Israelites demanded, and anointed for themselves, a king to lead them. He wasn't wrong.

In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about "Heroes and Hero-Worship". I'm trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read...

When the rights of some can supersede the rights of others or can be deemed more equal than the equal rights of others, and everyone and no one has any rights all at the same time, humanity and civilization will cease to exist.

In the story I'm developing about Satan's battle against God I'm relying on JRR Tolkein's fictional rendering of their primordial relationship... in part because...

If the shoe fits, this qualifies as a “teaching”…for those under 55. The situation both American history finds itself in is one which my generation...

Reasonable people would agree that, since none of us is perfect, failure... From time to time throughout our lives... Is inexorably tied to...

Has anyone been able to explain "how" the ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids when most of the engineering skills they would have been required...