Thinking Out Aloud

The paradox at the heart of progressivism can be expressed very simply: the more absolute one's commitment to equality, the higher one...

This extends a comment I made here , at a post by a Catholic philosopher on the decision by Judge Walker overturning Proposition 8, the Cali...

A question: how long will it before requiring laws to be structured according to the One True Sexuality are going to seem as quaint (at leas...

I have been aware of the controversy in the US about the proposal to build a mosque near Ground Zero but not following it all that closely....

Writing my post on trust, power and status , it occurred to me that much of politics can be understood by attending to the underlying motiva...

Continuing my critique of the "corporations as great threat" nonsense, one of the basic confusions one sees is the equating of pr...

In a blog post on the forthcoming Australian election ( via ), journalist and QUT researcher Derek Barry expressed the notion that corporat...

In a blog post on the forthcoming Australian election, journalist and QUT researcher Derek Barry has managed to express the notion that cor...

Elizabeth Anscombe was an ardent and effective defender of orthodox Catholic doctrine in mainstream academic philosophy. Her essay Contrace...

The process of confirming a US Supreme Court Justice has became an intensely political process . Elena Kagan seems something of odd choice ...

This is extends a comment I made here . In ethics, Thomism or Catholic natural law theory is a system of reasoning whereby moral conclusion...

Bigotry is the unilateral denial of moral protections to a category of people: unilateral because it does not flow from any specific acts b...

The salient role of God in moral discourse is to operate as a completely trumping moral authority against whom no human claims have standing...