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Saturday, June 28, 2025

Masculinity and Femininity: The Differences Are Not Arbitrary “Social Constructs”

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Following is a repost from August 8, 2018. The issue today needs to be restated.   Masculinity and femininity are emotional styles that exp...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Democracy. Democracy. We’re All for Democracy!

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Communists, socialists, and fascists, as well as the usual American political suspects, Democrats and Republicans, have all advocated, and t...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Freedom of Speech Presupposes Private Property Rights

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The right to free speech does not mean you can say or write anything anytime, anywhere. Private property rights have primacy over speech rig...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Positivism

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The philosophy of positivism—also called logical positivism and logical empiricism—has for decades been the bane of science, especially the ...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

On the Nature of Evil

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“Evil” is a strong word.   The Oxford English Dictionary says it derives from Old English and, when applied to a person, is “the most compr...
Friday, January 17, 2025

On Writing

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Writing is not automatic, and no one is born with the talent.   When I was a sophomore in a public high school, I was a student in an honors...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

The Meaning of Logic

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Aristotelian logic has been variously defined as the science and art of correct reasoning, of making correct inferences, or of correct think...
Friday, November 01, 2024

On the Path to Dictatorship: Why [Former President Trump] Must be [Elected]

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This repost is from November 4, 2019, one year before the 2020 election, and last repost in my series of three for the current election seas...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

The Danger of Emergency Powers: A History Lesson

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Below is the second of three reposts in this election season on politics. (The third repost will be on November 1.) The present essay was po...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

What Americans Need to Learn about the Left

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Below is a repost from July 18, 2022, that is important for our upcoming election. Most of my previous posts from 2017–22 have political the...
Friday, August 09, 2024

Space, Time, and Causality

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Ayn Rand’s theory of concepts answers many so-called problems in philosophy. One of these is Kant’s claim that such concepts as space, time...