Will Elites Impose Neo-Feudalism on Their Peoples?
The elites of the United States have gone rogue. As with the elites of the rest of the West, America’s elites seek to impose a kind of neo-feudalism on its … Read More
Category: Ethical Issues
The Secular Religion of the “Woke” and Its Inquisition against Right-Wing Heresy
Material added on February 23, 2023 In 1633, the Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei was brought to trial for heresy before the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Galileo’s crime … Read More
The Fascism of American Progressives Is Becoming More Apparent
Recently, the Biden administration has announced the formation of a “Disinformation Governance Board” under the Department of Homeland Security. According to testimony by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to Congress, the … Read More
Individual Rights Versus Collective Responsibilities
On the Left, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, advocates for collective responsibilities. Wikimedia Commons / Friedrich Karl Wunder and George Lester On the Right, John Locke, champion for individual rights. … Read More
More Lies Progressives Tell To Themselves
A neoliberal view of progressives. The cricket of course is a neoliberal. Pinocchio from the 1940 Walt Disney movie In my last post I outlined what I thought was the … Read More
The U.S. Interactions With Other Nations
United Nations Headquarters in New York City Wikimedia Commons / Neptuul Very little divides American citizens more than questions about how the U.S. should interact with other nations. This has always … Read More
The Fraud of Multiculturalism
The Monument to Multiculturalism by Francesco Peril in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Four identical sculptures are locate in Buffalo City, South Africa; Changchun, China; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Sydney, Australia Wikimedia Commons … Read More
The Basic Values Needed for Our Politics
Five of the most important Western ethical thinkers. From top, left to right; bottom, left to right: Socrates (Wikimedia Commons / Eric Gaba (Sting)); Aristotle (Wikimedia Commons / Eric Gaba … Read More
Values, Reality, and Politics
The Death of Socrates, by Jaques-Louis David (1787) Wikimedia Commons / Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931 Let it be stipulated the two major American political philosophies, more or less … Read More