Years ago, it was decided to bury Platonism under neoplatonism, which grafted on middle eastern concepts of good/evil and another world beyond this one which is so different from it that this one can ...

Free stuff requires more taxes. Those taxes are taken out of business, which passes the cost on to customers, and workers, ...

The more you get individualism, the more the group depends on “equality,” which is group-enforced collectivized individualism ...

We might take a look at the seven deadly sins and re-frame them in a realist context as the psychological failings that they ...

We discuss (not debate!) the intricacies of host culture, feeling of place, influence of language, and threads that ...

The Hedonic Imperative holds that we design our minds and actions so that life is constantly made more pleasurable. This gets ...

One form of hierarchy is intelligence. IQ measures the ability to have intelligence; it is like a mechnical test of the brain. This becomes important when we encounter complexity that most people ...

DDT ended the awful scourge of malaria and probably saved the lives of many troops, but as is the case with all magic, there was a sacrificial cost, and it may have been the hormonal health of future ...

Quick note: I was a guest on the Necropolis AD Show (NADS), a podcast about philosophy that yesterday covered the ...

Tom Wolfe wrote of the status signaling of those who wanted to get ahead in a competitive society with social mobility, and ...

A cluster of ten things start to happen. We get anxious, insecure. We have anger problems. Our self-esteem is impaired. Children can have issues of cognitive distortions, in which they start to think ...