A Defense of Deep Reading

José Ortega y Gasset's "The Revolt of the Masses" a Century Later

Thucydides, the Melian Dialogue, and Keeping the (Russian) Jungle at Bay

The Incestuous Origins of Myrrh as Told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Jacques Ellul, Technique, and the Digital Age

Camus and the Meaning of Existential Rebellion

Pontificating On A Few Baltasar Gracián Aphorisms

Does the Marketplace of Ideas Still Work?

Is Hannah Arendt's Critique of Totalitarianism Still Relevant?

Why Grant Was Better Than Lee

Nietzsche on Herd Thinkers vs. Free Spirits

D.H. Lawrence Hated Masturbation and Porn (and maybe you should too)

Of Ants And Aliens And Us As Well

Mitt Romney: The Last Honest Republican?

Electric Blanket People

The Dangers of Using History for Political Purposes

American Democracy and the Myth of Progress

What Does It Really Mean to Be Free?

Film as Philosophy: Five Thought-Provoking Scenes

An Age of Bulldozers?