Pascal Brucker’s The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism is a passionate indictment of the guilt-ridden and self-loathing culture that dominates contemporary Western
In his book Feminism and Freedom the philosopher Michael Levin writes: One usually thinks of creationism as a doctrine for religious fundamentalists, but from a
Over at Taki’s Magazine, Jim Goad writes about ethnomasochism and the conformist mindset of today’s progressives: A common delusion among Passover Syndrome sufferers is that
Whenever there is a major economic event (a rapid decline of stock prices, a spike in the price of oil, high unemployment, etc.) the media
In Cato Journal, Volume 28, No. 1 (Winter 2008), the independent scholar Anthony de Jasay reviews four common fallacies (as presented in the works of
If there is one thing that characterizes contemporary political discourse, and contemporary political liberalism in particular, it is the obsession with “rights.” Individual rights are
One common answer to the question of what should characterize an acceptable theory of justice is that it should be “impartial.” This is generally understood
Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson believes that a major reason why the social sciences have made so little progress is that its practitioners have ignored the
David Stove’s book The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies is a remarkable collection of essays. As a staunch positivist ,the author is not impressed
The Dutch psychologist Piet Vroon once opined that philosophy has lost much of its relevance because it has lost touch with the (natural) sciences. Although