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AUTHOR EXPERIENCES
- BLOG: My Long Silence, January 5, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: Is God an emergent property?, May 4, 2020
- BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
- BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
- BLOG: At the Center of the Universe, From the Middle of Nowhere. (And Anybody Can Go There.), May 3, 2015
AUTONOMY & INDIVIDUALISM
- BLOG: My Long Silence, January 5, 2015
- BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
- BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- BLOG: Let’s hear it! Three tears for equality!, March 7, 2016
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, by Annaka Harris
- REVIEW: Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, by Louis Dumont
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: Hypermodern Times, by Gilles Lipovetsky
- REVIEW: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
- REVIEW: The Malaise Of Modernity, by Charles Taylor
- REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Western Way, by Joseph Campbell
BIOGRAPHIES
- REVIEW: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt
- REVIEW: John Adams, by David McCullough
- REVIEW: Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God, by Will Durant
- REVIEW: Hypatia of Alexandria, by Maria Dzielska
- REVIEW: Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy, by Thomas L. Pangle
- REVIEW: Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, by Mark T, Mitchell
- REVIEW: An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms, by Joseph Campbell & Michael Toms
- REVIEW: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham
- REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump
CIVILIZATION
- BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
- BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
- BLOG: The light, the power, the glory: kids. But can they save us?, March 5, 2018
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 3: Has social change made the US Constitution obsolete?, January 7, 2019
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
- BLOG: November 1, 2021: Humanity’s First Colossal Blunder, November 1, 2021
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
- BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
- BLOG: If You Think “The People” Want Freedom and Democracy, Think Again, September 5, 2022
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 3, Michael J. Sandel: How Concepts of Freedom Came Poised to End Freedom, October 11, 2022
- BLOG: Why Populism Wins and What Trump’s Second Term Will Look Like, October 17, 2022
- BLOG: Is the Academic Left at War with Science and Reason?, November 3, 2022
- BLOG: How Did the Academic Left Become Anti-Science?, November 12, 2022
- BLOG: What is the Academic Left’s Battle Plan Against Science and the West?, November 22, 2022
- BLOG: Is Critical Race Theory the Bomb Our Academic Left Hoped For?, November 29, 2022
- BLOG: Do Queer Theorists from the Academic Left Promote Trumpism?, December 10, 2022
- BLOG: Feminism Becomes Gender Theory and Hope Comes to Planet Earth, December 26, 2022
- BLOG: Are Nation-States an Attempt to Replace Lost Meaning?, January 4, 2015
- BLOG: Why Are Sooo Many Americans, Left and Right, So, So Very Daft? Is it Terminal?, July 5, 2023
- REVIEW: Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, by Barry J. Kemp
- REVIEW: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric H. Cline
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
- REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
- REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
- REVIEW: Ancient Empires before Alexander, by Robert L. Dise Jr.
- REVIEW: Before Philosophy, by Henri Frankfort, John A. Wilson, & Thorkild Jacobsen
- REVIEW: Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia, by Alexis Q. Castor
- REVIEW: The Birth Of The Modern Mind: The Intellectual History Of The 17th And 18th Centuries, by Alan Charles Kors
- REVIEW: A Brief History of the World, by Peter N. Stearns
- REVIEW: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt
- REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, 25th Anniversary Ed., by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, by Michael J. Sandel
- REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, by David Martin and Peter L. Berger
- REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: The Emergence of Agriculture, by Bruce D. Smith
- REVIEW: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism, by Peter Gay
- REVIEW: Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, by Louis Dumont
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Anonymous & N.K. Sandars translator
- REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
- REVIEW: The Foundations of Western Civilization, by Thomas F.X. Noble
- REVIEW: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis
- REVIEW: The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson
- REVIEW: Hypermodern Times, by Gilles Lipovetsky
- REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- REVIEW: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian M. Fagan
- REVIEW: The Malaise Of Modernity, by Charles Taylor
- REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
- REVIEW: Natural Law: Reflections On Theory Practice, by Jacques Maritain
- REVIEW: Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, by Spencer Wells
- REVIEW: The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn
- REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
- REVIEW: Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It, by Steven L. Goldman
- REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
- REVIEW: Society in Prehistory: The Origins of Human Culture, by Tim Megarry
- REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
- REVIEW: A Student's Guide to Classics, by Bruce S. Thrornton
- REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: The Two Cultures, by C.P. Snow
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
COMMUNITY & TRADITION
- BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
- REVIEW: Community and Tradition: Conservative Perspectives on the American Experience, by George W. Carey & Bruce Frohnen
- REVIEW: The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community, by Stephen A. Marglin
- REVIEW: Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, by Louis Dumont
- REVIEW: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, by Aldo Leopold
- REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
CONSERVATIVISM, CLASSICAL & MODERN
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
- BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
- BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
- BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
- BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
- REVIEW: Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: Icarus Fallen: Search For Meaning In An Uncertain World, by Chantal Delsol
- REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
- REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
CREATIONISM
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: The light, the power, the glory: kids. But can they save us?, March 5, 2018
- REVIEW: The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, by Hugh Ross
- REVIEW: Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West
- REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It, by Steven L. Goldman
CHRISTIANITY
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
- REVIEW: The Apostle Paul, by Luke Timothy Johnson
- REVIEW: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism, by Karen Armstrong
- REVIEW: Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels
- REVIEW: The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, by Hugh Ross
- REVIEW: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, by Robert L. Wilken
- REVIEW: Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West
- REVIEW: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume, J.M. Bell (Editor)
- REVIEW: How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, by Deepak Chopra
- REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- REVIEW: Made for More, by Curtis Martin
- REVIEW: Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
- REVIEW: The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics, by Elaine Pagles
- REVIEW: Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion, by John C. Polkinghorne
CULTURE WARS
- BLOG: Revenge politics: America’s Culture Wars just get hotter, January 2, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
- BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
- BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
- BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
- BLOG: Once Again, America is Asking, “Are Trump and His Party, Traitors?”, March 7, 2022
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
- BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
- BLOG: “People of color and the poor.” “Stop the Steal!” What do these really mean?, August 16, 2022
- BLOG: If You Think “The People” Want Freedom and Democracy, Think Again, September 5, 2022
- BLOG: Why Populism Wins and What Trump’s Second Term Will Look Like, October 17, 2022
- BLOG: Is the Academic Left at War with Science and Reason?, November 3, 2022
- BLOG: How Did the Academic Left Become Anti-Science?, November 12, 2022
- BLOG: What is the Academic Left’s Battle Plan Against Science and the West?, November 22, 2022
- BLOG: Is Critical Race Theory the Bomb Our Academic Left Hoped For?, November 29, 2022
- BLOG: Do Queer Theorists from the Academic Left Promote Trumpism?, December 10, 2022
- BLOG: Feminism Becomes Gender Theory and Hope Comes to Planet Earth, December 26, 2022
- BLOG: Using People with Disabilities for Political Gain: The Radical Left’s Ultimate Malevolence, March 7, 2023
- BLOG: Hey Trump Supporters, Now Do You Feel Stupid?, May 25, 2023
- BLOG: Just One More Time: Hey Trump Supporters, Now Do you Feel “sTupid”?, June 12, 2023
- BLOG: Why Are Sooo Many Americans, Left and Right, So, So Very Daft? Is it Terminal?, July 5, 2023
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
- REVIEW: Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism, by David Stove
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, 25th Anniversary Ed., by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, by Hugh Ross
- REVIEW: The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America, by Shelby Steele
- REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
- REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, by Heather Mac Donald
- REVIEW: Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, by Philippe Bénéton
- REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
- REVIEW: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, by Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont
- REVIEW: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, by Sandra Lee Bartky
- REVIEW: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
- REVIEW: Icarus Fallen: Search For Meaning In An Uncertain World, by Chantal Delsol
- REVIEW: It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis
- REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
- REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- REVIEW: Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, by Eric Voegelin
- REVIEW: Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy, by Thomas L. Pangle
- REVIEW: The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History, by Lawrence W. Levine
- REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
- REVIEW: The Science Question in Feminism, by Sandra G. Harding
- REVIEW: Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It, by Steven L. Goldman
- REVIEW: The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses, by Alan Charles Kors & Harvey A. Silverglate
- REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump
- REVIEW: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, by Christina Hoff Sommers
- REVIEW: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
CURRENT EVENTS & ISSUES
- BLOG: Revenge politics: America’s Culture Wars just get hotter, January 2, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
- BLOG: After five years, my second novel is complete. What I wish I hadn’t learned:, November 4, 2019
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
- BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
- BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
- BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
- BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
- BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
- BLOG: Once Again, America is Asking, “Are Trump and His Party, Traitors?”, March 7, 2022
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
- BLOG: “People of color and the poor.” “Stop the Steal!” What do these really mean?, August 16, 2022
- BLOG: If You Think “The People” Want Freedom and Democracy, Think Again, September 5, 2022
- BLOG: Why Populism Wins and What Trump’s Second Term Will Look Like, October 17, 2022
- BLOG: Hey Trump Supporters, Now Do You Feel Stupid?, May 25, 2023
- BLOG: Just One More Time: Hey Trump Supporters, Now Do you Feel “sTupid”?, June 12, 2023
- BLOG: Why Are Sooo Many Americans, Left and Right, So, So Very Daft? Is it Terminal?, July 5, 2023
- REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
- REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America, by Shelby Steele
- REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, 25th Anniversary Ed., by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
- REVIEW: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian M. Fagan
- REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
- REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump
- REVIEW: The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, by Richard B. Alley
- REVIEW: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, by Christina Hoff Sommers
DEMOCRACY
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
- BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution, Part 8: America’s Not Completely Forgotten Stalker: Karl Marx, July 28, 2022
- BLOG: If You Think “The People” Want Freedom and Democracy, Think Again, September 5, 2022
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 3, Michael J. Sandel: How Concepts of Freedom Came Poised to End Freedom, October 11, 2022
- BLOG: Why Populism Wins and What Trump’s Second Term Will Look Like, October 17, 2022
- REVIEW: 1776, by David McCullough
- REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
- REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
- REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
- REVIEW: The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
- REVIEW: The Americans, Vol. 2: The National Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
- REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: Democracy in America: Specially Edited and Abridged for the Modern Reader, by Alexis de Tocqueville
- REVIEW: Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, by Michael J. Sandel
- REVIEW: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis
- REVIEW: Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, by Mary Ann Glendon
- REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
- REVIEW: The Spirit of American Government, by James Allen Smith
- REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
- REVIEW: A Student's Guide To American Political Thought, by George W. Carey
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
ECONOMICS
- BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
- BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
- REVIEW: America's Economic Supremacy, by Brooks Adams
- REVIEW: The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community, by Stephen A. Marglin
- REVIEW: The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson
- REVIEW: From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology, by Louis Dumont
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
FICTION
FLIMFLAM NONSENSE
- BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
- BLOG: Is the Academic Left at War with Science and Reason?, November 3, 2022
- BLOG: How Did the Academic Left Become Anti-Science?, November 12, 2022
- BLOG: What is the Academic Left’s Battle Plan Against Science and the West?, November 22, 2022
- BLOG: Is Critical Race Theory the Bomb Our Academic Left Hoped For?, November 29, 2022
- BLOG: Do Queer Theorists from the Academic Left Promote Trumpism?, December 10, 2022
- BLOG: Feminism Becomes Gender Theory and Hope Comes to Planet Earth, December 26, 2022
- BLOG: Using People with Disabilities for Political Gain: The Radical Left’s Ultimate Malevolence, March 7, 2023
- BLOG: Why Are Sooo Many Americans, Left and Right, So, So Very Daft? Is it Terminal?, July 5, 2023
- REVIEW: How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, by Deepak Chopra
GLOBAL WARMING
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- REVIEW: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian M. Fagan
- REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- REVIEW: The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, by Richard B. Alley
HISTORY
- BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: November 1, 2021: Humanity’s First Colossal Blunder, November 1, 2021
- BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution, Part 8: America’s Not Completely Forgotten Stalker: Karl Marx, July 28, 2022
- BLOG: Are Nation-States an Attempt to Replace Lost Meaning?, January 4, 2015
- REVIEW: 1776, by David McCullough
- REVIEW: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric H. Cline
- REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
- REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
- REVIEW: Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, by Barry J. Kemp
- REVIEW: The Birth Of The Modern Mind: The Intellectual History Of The 17th And 18th Centuries, by Alan Charles Kors
- REVIEW: The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
- REVIEW: The Americans, Vol. 2: The National Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
- REVIEW: Ancient Empires before Alexander, by Robert L. Dise Jr.
- REVIEW: Before Philosophy, by Henri Frankfort, John A. Wilson, & Thorkild Jacobsen
- REVIEW: Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia, by Alexis Q. Castor
- REVIEW: A Brief History of the World, by Peter N. Stearns
- REVIEW: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, by Robert L. Wilken
- REVIEW: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt
- REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
- REVIEW: The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, by D. Bruce Dickson
- REVIEW: Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, by Michael J. Sandel
- REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
- REVIEW: The Emergence of Agriculture, by Bruce D. Smith
- REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
- REVIEW: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis
- REVIEW: The Foundations of Western Civilization, by Thomas F.X. Noble
- REVIEW: Hypatia of Alexandria, by Maria Dzielska
- REVIEW: A History of Philosophy 1-3, by Frederick Charles Copleston
- REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
- REVIEW: The Lessons of History, by Will Durant & Ariel Durant
- REVIEW: From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology, by Louis Dumont
- REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
- REVIEW: The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn
- REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer
- REVIEW: A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
- REVIEW: Society in Prehistory: The Origins of Human Culture, by Tim Megarry
- REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
- REVIEW: A Student's Guide to Classics, by Bruce S. Thrornton
- REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- REVIEW: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham
- REVIEW: The Wisdom of History, by J. Rufus Fears
HUMAN EVOLUTION
- BLOG: Where Do Ghosts, Gods, and Devils Come From?, March 20, 2023
- REVIEW: Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness, by Ian Tattersall
- REVIEW: Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, by David Eagleman and Johnathan Downar
- REVIEW: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, by Annaka Harris
- REVIEW: Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett
- REVIEW: Evolutionary Analysis, by Scott Freeman and Jon C. Herron
- REVIEW: Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, by Spencer Wells
- REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah
- REVIEW: Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, by David Livingstone Smith
LIBERALISM, CLASSICAL & MODERN
- BLOG: Let’s hear it! Three tears for equality!, March 7, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
- BLOG: Is the Academic Left at War with Science and Reason?, November 3, 2022
- BLOG: How Did the Academic Left Become Anti-Science?, November 12, 2022
- BLOG: What is the Academic Left’s Battle Plan Against Science and the West?, November 22, 2022
- BLOG: Is Critical Race Theory the Bomb Our Academic Left Hoped For?, November 29, 2022
- BLOG: Do Queer Theorists from the Academic Left Promote Trumpism?, December 10, 2022
- BLOG: Feminism Becomes Gender Theory and Hope Comes to Planet Earth, December 26, 2022
- BLOG: Using People with Disabilities for Political Gain: The Radical Left’s Ultimate Malevolence, March 7, 2023
- REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
- REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
- REVIEW: The Birth Of The Modern Mind: The Intellectual History Of The 17th And 18th Centuries, by Alan Charles Kors
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, by Philippe Bénéton
- REVIEW: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, by Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont
- REVIEW: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
- REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
- REVIEW: Liberals on Liberalism, by Alfonso J. Damico Ed.
- REVIEW: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
- REVIEW: The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History, by Lawrence W. Levine
- REVIEW: The Science Question in Feminism, by Sandra G. Harding
- REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, by Christina Hoff Sommers
- REVIEW: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner
MEANING OR PURPOSE?
- BLOG: My Long Silence, January 5, 2015
- BLOG: Why we are the way we are – some groundwork, March 2, 2015
- BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
- BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
- BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
- BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- BLOG: Are Nation-States an Attempt to Replace Lost Meaning?, January 4, 2015
- REVIEW: Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: The Meaning of Human Existence, by Edward O. Wilson
MORALITY & ETHICS
- BLOG: Why we are the way we are – some groundwork, March 2, 2015
- BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
- BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
- BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
- BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
- BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
- REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
- REVIEW: Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, by David Livingstone Smith
MYTHOLOGY
- BLOG: Where Do Ghosts, Gods, and Devils Come From?, March 20, 2023
- REVIEW: The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Anonymous & N.K. Sandars translator
- REVIEW: An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms, by Joseph Campbell & Michael Toms
- REVIEW: Mythology and the Individual (Joseph Campbell Audio Collection), by Joseph Campbell
- REVIEW: Popol Vuh, by Anonymous, Dennis Tedlock (Translator)
- REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Soul of the Ancients, by Joseph Campbell
- REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Western Way, by Joseph Campbell
- REVIEW: Way of the Animal Powers, Part 1, by Joseph Campbell
- REVIEW: The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell, by Joseph Campbell & Michael Toms
NATURE
PHILOSOPHY
- BLOG: Why we are the way we are – some groundwork, March 2, 2015
- BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
- BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
- BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 1: Did the Founders get it wrong?, July 2, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 4: Rousseau’s enduring rebuke of Enlightenment governance, March 4, 2019
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 5: Utilitarians vs. the Founders. Who was right?, July 1, 2019
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
- BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
- BLOG: Is the Academic Left at War with Science and Reason?, November 3, 2022
- BLOG: How Did the Academic Left Become Anti-Science?, November 12, 2022
- BLOG: What is the Academic Left’s Battle Plan Against Science and the West?, November 22, 2022
- BLOG: Is Critical Race Theory the Bomb Our Academic Left Hoped For?, November 29, 2022
- BLOG: Do Queer Theorists from the Academic Left Promote Trumpism?, December 10, 2022
- BLOG: Feminism Becomes Gender Theory and Hope Comes to Planet Earth, December 26, 2022
- REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
- REVIEW: Before Philosophy, by Henri Frankfort, John A. Wilson, & Thorkild Jacobsen
- REVIEW: The Birth Of The Modern Mind: The Intellectual History Of The 17th And 18th Centuries, by Alan Charles Kors
- REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
- REVIEW: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism, by Peter Gay
- REVIEW: A History of Philosophy 1-3, by Frederick Charles Copleston
- REVIEW: Icarus Fallen: Search For Meaning In An Uncertain World, by Chantal Delsol
- REVIEW: Liberals on Liberalism, by Alfonso J. Damico Ed.
- REVIEW: Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, by Mark T, Mitchell
- REVIEW: Natural Law: Reflections On Theory Practice, by Jacques Maritain
- REVIEW: No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life, by Robert C. Solomon
- REVIEW: On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence, by Peter Atkins
- REVIEW: Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion, by John C. Polkinghorne
- REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
- REVIEW: A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning, by James V. SChall/a>
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
POLITICS
- BLOG: Let’s hear it! Three tears for equality!, March 7, 2016
- BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Revenge politics: America’s Culture Wars just get hotter, January 2, 2017
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
- BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
- BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
- BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
- BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
- BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
- BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
- BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
- BLOG: Once Again, America is Asking, “Are Trump and His Party, Traitors?”, March 7, 2022
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 2, Patrick J. Deneen’s verdict: Western Civilization Has Failed Because the Left and Right Succeeded, May 2, 2022
- BLOG: “People of color and the poor.” “Stop the Steal!” What do these really mean?, August 16, 2022
- BLOG: If You Think “The People” Want Freedom and Democracy, Think Again, September 5, 2022
- BLOG: Why Populism Wins and What Trump’s Second Term Will Look Like, October 17, 2022
- BLOG: Are Nation-States an Attempt to Replace Lost Meaning?, January 4, 2015
- BLOG: Using People with Disabilities for Political Gain: The Radical Left’s Ultimate Malevolence, March 7, 2023
- BLOG: Hey Trump Supporters, Now Do You Feel Stupid?, May 25, 2023
- BLOG: Just One More Time: Hey Trump Supporters, Now Do you Feel “sTupid”?, June 12, 2023
- BLOG: Why Are Sooo Many Americans, Left and Right, So, So Very Daft? Is it Terminal?, July 5, 2023
- REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
- REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
- REVIEW: Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt
- REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
- REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, by Heather Mac Donald
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson
- REVIEW: It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis
- REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- REVIEW: Liberals on Liberalism, by Alfonso J. Damico Ed.
- REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- REVIEW: Natural Law: Reflections On Theory Practice, by Jacques Maritain
- REVIEW: The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn
- REVIEW: Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, by Mary Ann Glendon
- REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
- REVIEW: Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, by Eric Voegelin
- REVIEW: The Spirit of American Government, by James Allen Smith
- REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
- REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
- REVIEW: A Student's Guide To American Political Thought, by George W. Carey
- REVIEW: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
- REVIEW: Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans, by Stephanie Faul
POSTMODERNISM
- BLOG: Is the Academic Left at War with Science and Reason?, November 3, 2022
- BLOG: How Did the Academic Left Become Anti-Science?, November 12, 2022
- BLOG: What is the Academic Left’s Battle Plan Against Science and the West?, November 22, 2022
- BLOG: Is Critical Race Theory the Bomb Our Academic Left Hoped For?, November 29, 2022
- BLOG: Do Queer Theorists from the Academic Left Promote Trumpism?, December 10, 2022
- BLOG: Feminism Becomes Gender Theory and Hope Comes to Planet Earth, December 26, 2022
- BLOG: Using People with Disabilities for Political Gain: The Radical Left’s Ultimate Malevolence, March 7, 2023
- BLOG: Why Are Sooo Many Americans, Left and Right, So, So Very Daft? Is it Terminal?, July 5, 2023
- REVIEW: Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism, by David Stove
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: The Closing of the American Mind, 25th Anniversary Ed., by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, by Heather Mac Donald
- REVIEW: Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, by Philippe Bénéton
- REVIEW: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, by Sandra Lee Bartky
- REVIEW: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
- REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
- REVIEW: The Science Question in Feminism, by Sandra G. Harding
- REVIEW: The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses, by Alan Charles Kors & Harvey A. Silverglate
- REVIEW: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, by Christina Hoff Sommers
- REVIEW: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner
PSYCHOLOGY
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016:
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018:
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: Is God an emergent property?, May 4, 2020
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
- BLOG: Are Nation-States an Attempt to Replace Lost Meaning?, January 4, 2015
- BLOG: Where Do Ghosts, Gods, and Devils Come From?, March 20, 2023
- BLOG: Why Are Sooo Many Americans, Left and Right, So, So Very Daft? Is it Terminal?, July 5, 2023
- REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
- REVIEW: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, by Frans de Waal
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, by David Eagleman and Johnathan Downar
- REVIEW: The Brain: The Story of You, by David Eagleman
- REVIEW: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, by Annaka Harris
- REVIEW: Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett
- REVIEW: The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker
- REVIEW: The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, by David Martin and Peter L. Berger
- REVIEW: Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
- REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
- REVIEW: How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, by Deepak Chopra
- REVIEW: Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
- REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah
- REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump
- REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Soul of the Ancients, by Joseph Campbell
- REVIEW: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, by David Livingstone Smith
- REVIEW: Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans, by Stephanie Faul
RELIGION
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- BLOG: Is God an emergent property?, May 4, 2020
- BLOG: Where Do Ghosts, Gods, and Devils Come From?, March 20, 2023
- BLOG: It’s Not Only America: Is Christianity Imploding Worldwide?, July 4, 2022
- REVIEW: The Apostle Paul, by Luke Timothy Johnson
- REVIEW: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism, by Karen Armstrong
- REVIEW: Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels
- REVIEW: The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, by D. Bruce Dickson
- REVIEW: The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, by David Martin and Peter L. Berger
- REVIEW: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume, J.M. Bell (Editor)
- REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
- REVIEW: How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, by Deepak Chopra
- REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- REVIEW: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
- REVIEW: The Lonely Man of Faith, by Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- REVIEW: Made for More, by Curtis Martin
- REVIEW: Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
- REVIEW: Mythology and the Individual (Joseph Campbell Audio Collection), by Joseph Campbell
- REVIEW: The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics, by Elaine Pagles
- REVIEW: Popol Vuh, by Anonymous, Dennis Tedlock (Translator)
- REVIEW: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, by Robert N. Bellah
- REVIEW: Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, by Eric Voegelin
- REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
- REVIEW: Transformations of Myth Through Time: The Soul of the Ancients, by Joseph Campbell
SCIENCE & TECH
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
- BLOG: The light, the power, the glory: kids. But can they save us?, March 5, 2018
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- BLOG: Is God an emergent property?, May 4, 2020
- BLOG: May 3, 2021: At the Center of the Universe, From the Middle of Nowhere. (And Anybody Can Go There.), May 3, 2015
- REVIEW: Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 73: Lasers, Molecules, and Methods, by Joseph O. Hirschfelder
- REVIEW: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, by Frans de Waal
- REVIEW: At Home in the Universe, by Stuart A. Kauffman
- REVIEW: Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness, by Ian Tattersall
- REVIEW: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010, by Freeman Dyson Ed. & Tim Folger Ed.
- REVIEW: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution, by Maitland Armstrong Edey & Donald C. Johanson
- REVIEW: Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, by David Eagleman and Johnathan Downar
- REVIEW: The Brain: The Story of You, by David Eagleman
- REVIEW: Carbon Nano Forms and Applications, by Maheshwar Sharon
- REVIEW: Catalysis: An Integrated Approach, Volume 123, by R.A. Van Santen Ed. et. al.
- REVIEW: Catalysis by Metals: Course Held in Les Houches, 19-29 March 1996, by Albert-Jean Renouprez Ed. & Hervé Jobic Ed.
- REVIEW: Coherent Radar Performance Estimation, by James A. Scheer Ed.
- REVIEW: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, by Annaka Harris
- REVIEW: Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett
- REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: Electromagnetic Principles Of Integrated Optics, by Donald L. Lee
- REVIEW: Elementary Linear Algebra, by Howard Anton
- REVIEW: Elementary Modern Physics, by Richard T. Weidner & Robert L. Sells
- REVIEW: Elementary Quantum Mechanics, by David S. Saxon
- REVIEW: Evolutionary Analysis, by Scott Freeman and Jon C. Herron
- REVIEW: High Resolution Radar, by Donald R. Wehner
- REVIEW: Information Transmission, Modulation, and Noise: A Unified Approach to Communication Systems, by Mischa Schwartz
- REVIEW: Introduction to Airborne Radar, by George W. Stimson
- REVIEW: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 3rd Ed., by David J. Griffiths, by David J. Griffiths
- REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- REVIEW: Laser Control and Manipulation of Molecules, by A.D. Bandrauk Ed.
- REVIEW: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian M. Fagan
- REVIEW: Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structureinfrared and Raman Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules Volume 2, by Gerhard Herzberg
- REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
- REVIEW: A New History of Life, by Stuart Sutherland
- REVIEW: Nonlinear Laser Chemistry: Multiple-Photon Excitation, by V.S. Letokhov
- REVIEW: On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence, by Peter Atkins
- REVIEW: Optical Control of Molecular Dynamics, by Stuart A. Rice
- REVIEW: Optics, by Eugene Hecht
- REVIEW: Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, by Spencer Wells
- REVIEW: Physical Chemistry, by Peter Atkins & Julio de Paula
- REVIEW: Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion, by John C. Polkinghorne
- REVIEW: Radar System Design & Analysis, by Shahan A. Hovanessian
- REVIEW: Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, by Eric Voegelin
- REVIEW: Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It, by Steven L. Goldman
- REVIEW: Sex and the Origins of Death, by William R. Clark
- REVIEW: A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
- REVIEW: Surface Plasmons, by Heinz Raether
- REVIEW: The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, by Richard B. Alley
- REVIEW: At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity, by William R. Clark
- REVIEW: Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, by David Livingstone Smith
TOTALITARIANISM
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
- BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- BLOG: Why my old Right-wing tribe betrayed everything it once stood for, March 2, 2020
- BLOG: America’s history lesson: Seven truths Trump taught the world, September 7, 2020
- BLOG: Charlie’s Exposé, Part 1: When America’s Right-Wing Became What it Most Despised, November 2, 2020
- BLOG: King Trump has no clothes. What a sight… Let the laughter begin! , January 4, 2021
- BLOG: Lies, Dupes, and How to Patch Cracks in America’s Broken Foundation. Part 1, February 1, 2021
- BLOG: Rush Limbaugh is dead. So are Joseph Goebbels and Al-Ghazali. The similarities don’t end there., March 1, 2021
- BLOG: Liberty! Freedom! Covid! America’s Heroic Public Health War, September 6, 2021
- BLOG: Descent of the West? Part 1, A Preamble., January 3, 2022
- BLOG: A Letter to Ukraine: America’s Founding Father fought the world’s greatest military might, often without gunpowder; he triumphed, so can you, February 26, 2022
- BLOG: Once Again, America is Asking, “Are Trump and His Party, Traitors?”, March 7, 2022
- BLOG: If You Think “The People” Want Freedom and Democracy, Think Again, September 5, 2022
- BLOG: Why Populism Wins and What Trump’s Second Term Will Look Like, October 17, 2022
- BLOG: Using People with Disabilities for Political Gain: The Radical Left’s Ultimate Malevolence, March 7, 2023
- BLOG: Hey Trump Supporters, Now Do You Feel Stupid?, May 25, 2023
- BLOG: Just One More Time: Hey Trump Supporters, Now Do you Feel “sTupid”?, June 12, 2023
- REVIEW: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, by Susan Jacoby
- REVIEW: Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
- REVIEW: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen
- REVIEW: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
- REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- REVIEW: It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis
- REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- REVIEW: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- REVIEW: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder
- REVIEW: The State and the Rule of Law, by Blandine Kriegel
- REVIEW: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder
U.S. CONSTITUTION
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 1: Did the Founders get it wrong?, July 2, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 3: Has social change made the US Constitution obsolete?, January 7, 2019
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 4: Rousseau’s enduring rebuke of Enlightenment governance, March 4, 2019
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 5: Utilitarians vs. the Founders. Who was right?, July 1, 2019
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 6: Western ideals and idealists: The quest to balance too many humans, July 6, 2020
- BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution, Part 8: America’s Not Completely Forgotten Stalker: Karl Marx, July 28, 2022
- REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis
U.S. FOUNDERS
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- BLOG: July 5, 2021: Confronting the Constitution Part 7: Capitalism as Freedom or Justice?, July 5, 2021
- REVIEW: 1776, by David McCullough
- REVIEW: American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue", by Daniel N. Robinson
- REVIEW: The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
- REVIEW: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis
- REVIEW: John Adams, by David McCullough
WRITING
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