We educate, above all, by equipping each new generation to name the world rightly.
Brad Littlejohn
In essentials, gravity. In nonessentials, levity. In all things, charity.
Beyond Order: A Review
In a world of Chaos, Peterson speaks wisdom into the whirlwind.
So Natural is the Union of Religion with Justice: Blogging through Hooker’s Laws, Book V
So I know I've been absolutely terrible about contributing to this blog, but I am at last ready to start making up for lost time by using this blog, at the very least, as a running journal for...*drum roll*...the long-delayed Richard Hooker Modernization Project,...
The Pandora Papers and the Problem of Tax Havens
Earlier this month, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) dropped a bombshell: 11.9 million confidential documents revealing tens of trillions of dollars in shady financial dealings by over 400 individuals, including 35 world leaders and...
The Tyranny of “They Say”
“‘They say,’ is the monarch of this country, in a social sense. No one asks ‘who says it,’ so long as it is believed that ‘they say it.’ Designing men endeavor to persuade the publick, that already ‘they say,’ what these designing men wish to be said, and the publick is only too much disposed blindly to join in the cry of ‘they say.’” (233)
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and the Paradox of Politics
A couple of weeks ago, President Biden announced that he was at last going to put the massive and seemingly unlimited powers of the federal bureaucracy to work in a direct assault on vaccine hesitancy, essentially mandating that all workers at companies of over 100...
What I’ve Been Writing
Over the past eighteen months, I have been blessed to be free to pursue the vocation of a writer as very few are ever so blessed. However, since I've been writing in so many different fora, several folks have complained that it is hard to keep track of it all. As I'm...
Giving Voice to the Voiceless Creation
Last week, I was honored by the opportunity to address the students, parents, and faculty of Greyfriars Classical School in Matthews, NC for the Convocation to mark the start of their academic year. I thought I'd use this blog to share the text of my talk, which...
The Ethics of Masking in an Unending Pandemic
After a brief summer of freedom, the United States is reeling under a fresh assault of coronavirus, the India-bred Delta variant having proved more than infectious enough to overtop our half-built barriers of herd immunity. In some ways, this latest wave is the most...
“The Most Biblicist National Culture in the World”
A few weeks ago, I wrote a review of Sam Goldman's very stimulating new book, After Nationalism. In the book, Goldman narrates three different conceptions of American national identity: the Covenant (c. 1630-1830), rooted in New England Protestant identity; the...