“N.I.C.E. No More” is a reference and an acronym from That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis. In Hideous Strength, N.I.C.E. stands for the “National Institute of Continuing Experimentation” that does experimentation on humans and on animals. It’s quite atrocious and …
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” John Milton, Areopagitica The First Amendment was written to guarantee that the government would not interfere with our freedom of speech. The government …
We in the United States should have listened to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Perhaps some of us, by God’s grace, still have ears to hear and the time and determination to read and take our stand in these gray and latter days. This …
With the completion of the calendar year and another regular orbit of God’s earth around God’s sun (Genesis 1:14-19), many of us are giving thought to time. For example, have a look at Augustine’s philosophy of time in Confessions, Book 11. …
The media are the message. That’s also true this week of the Feast of All Saints. So, a central (and therefore philosophical!) question is, What are the means-by-which people join the Communion of Saints in Heaven? As I wrote last …
The media are the message. That’s also true this Reformation Week, heading into the Feast of All Saints. So, a central (and therefore philosophical!) question is, What are the means-by-which people join the Communion of Saints in Heaven? Our answer in …
21 October 2022, Week 19 after Trinity LANGUAGE Poetry. In his lecture “On the origin of the Working of Art” the 21st-century philosopher Martin Heidegger explains that poetry is where we see language as it is meant to be — …
