When politicians make policies specifically targeting transgender kids, as they are doing in Alberta, what is their aim? Who wants you to be preoccupied about trans kids, and who benefits when you are? Politics is about principles, rights and formal justice, but it’s also about emotion, power and competition. Though we need to ask “principled”…
“One should act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can, at the same time, will that it becomes a universal law.” – Immanuel Kant “I will show you a still more excellent way.” – I Cor. 12:13 Many years ago, I and three other undergraduate friends would meet for discussions over pizza…
I remember once walking as a boy with my father in some fields around our house. I was probably about nine years old. As we made our way, we came across a bird that fluttered and hopped on the ground. Its wing was bent and looked broken, and the bird appeared to be in distress….
“Well, who wants to keep the human race going?” This is the question considered in the slim volume entitled Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age by Rémi Brague, a French intellectual and historian of philosophy. Lest any of Brague’s characteristics give one pause about the books’ accessibility, the reader may draw reassurance…
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