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John Locke’s Legacy of Liberty: Shattering the Divine Right Fallacy

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From Edenic Authority to Prussian Classrooms, the Battle for Rational Freedom. The publication of John Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government” stands as a definitive philosophical dismantling of political tyranny. Written against a backdrop of absolute monarchy, Locke’s work sought to eradicate the justifications used by potentates to subjugate the individual. The primary target of his intellectual assault was the “divine right of kings,” a doctrine that sought to legitimize absolute […] Read more »

The Trivium, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and Intellectual Self-Defense w/ Dylan Moore

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Dylan Moore from the Volitional Science Network and I had a discussion on the Trivium, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and how to use intellectual self-defense with those displaying the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which is his specialty. If you’d like to hear a thoughtful conversation, feel free to check it out.   Follow Dylan Moore at the Volitional Science Network: https://www.youtube.com/user/CrazyVysty Here’s the video where I first discovered Dylan, and where I learned […] Read more »

Who Killed the Liberal Arts?

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“What in the world happened to the liberal arts? A degree in the humanities used to transmit the knowledge and wisdom imbued in the works of great Western artists, writers, musicians and thinkers like Shakespeare and Mozart. But today, that same degree stresses Western racism, sexism, imperialism, and other ills and sins that reinforce a sense of victimhood and narcissism. So, what happened? Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute […] Read more »