January 14, 2023

An Absolute Look at Moral Relativism

One of the most pervasive “isms” of our time is moral relativism, the idea that there is no standard of right and wrong independent of either our personal beliefs or our societal conventions. But in his book, A Refutation of Moral Relativ...

June 24, 2022

Drag Queens and the Incoherence of Moral Relativism

It is a sign of our times that movements have emerged to teach pedophilia in schools and to subject children to drag queen performances. Perversions like this are borne of an insidious attitude known as moral relativism. As the term suggests, mora...

May 21, 2022

Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Science

There exists s a tendency today to put too much faith in science. Consider, for example, the currently popular belief that scientific advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) may one day enable robots to become “intelligent.” This idea is...

August 21, 2018

Why Morality Demands the Death Penalty

The pope’s recent declaration that the death penalty is “inadmissible” reflects received wisdom today. Capital punishment, conventional thinking goes, not only fails to deter crime, but puts innocent people to death; inflicts ...

February 9, 2017

Tax cuts for the rich?

  Despite the preponderance of contrary evidence, myths persist that tax cuts primarily benefit "the rich" and have no discernible impact on economic growth. Months ago, for instance, Hillary Clinton charged that "slashing t...

February 2, 2017

Why the recovery is so weak

In defense of his sluggish recovery, Barack Obama said, “I actually compare our economic performance to how, historically, countries that have wrenching financial crises perform. By that measure, we probably managed this better than any large e...

November 5, 2016

The Problem with our Public Discourse

This political season has become especially emotion-driven. That may be understandable for the general public, for whom politics is neither a passion nor a preoccupation, but it is another matter when our “elite” who shape public opinion ...