In the aftermath of Rand Paul’s recent support of the War on Drugs ( http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/13/rand-paul-assures-evangelicals-that-he-d ), many people have defended Senator Paul, saying, “He was speaking before the most socially conservative audience in the country. What do you want him to do? Tell them that the government has no business legislating morality? Tell them that […]
By Sean Dempsey, 04/03/25 In hindsight, 2024 will likely be chronicled in history books as the year when the postmodern fever broke—an era marked by an unchecked commitment to relativism, the absurd elevation of subjectivity, and an almost religious rejection of objective truth. Beauty was no longer allowed to exist on its own terms; instead, […]
by Sean Dempsey1/23/24 Plato’s allegory of the cave is one of the greatest stories of philosophy. It allows us to understand how the Greek philosophers once perceived the world. The tale involves a metaphorical explanation in which a human is faced with raw knowledge and unfiltered Truth. In his allegory, Plato explains how the existence […]
