The Great Conversation

Who are the Masses? Arendt begins her book in the distant past: if not necessarily in number of years, certainly several worlds away in...

Why each of us must recognize and confront our Shadow if we are to perfect ourselves as individuals.

In a departure from lofty abstractions, French philosopher Michel de Montaigne presented an earthy vision of virtue during the Renaissance.

Democracy and "equality" are upheld in the modern age as intrinsically good. Alexis de Tocqueville in the 19th century, did not.

I attended a secular high school in New York. One year, my English class read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Despite our...

Are Truth and Wisdom to be sought in the abstract and ethereal philosopher's quest or is the Divine to be sought in the mundane and human?

The introduction to a seven part series exploring Hannah Arendt's masterwork on totalitarianism. Answering: why read Arendt today?

How can this literary classic and precursor to Cast Away starring Tom Hanks help you build wealth?

America and the West is at a political crossroads. Divorced of our roots, how did we come to live in an age where everything is "political?"

Denunciation of Christopher Columbus as history's greatest villain has become ubiquitous. Is it justified?

The First Presidential "Debate" of the 2020 election season was a shameful display of public tribalism, dogmatism, and demagoguery.

A portrait of the "Magnanimous Man," as iconographized by Aristotle in his "Nicomachean Ethics."

Chaos has descended upon the USA in 2020. No matter the scourge, the solution is a re-assertion of our lofty foundational principles.

Even a scientist is a human being. So it is natural for him, like others, to hate the things he cannot explain. It is a common illusion...

The decline of the world's third largest bank-barrier coral reef is more complicated that "climate change."