Jordan Peterson has written a Nicomachean Ethics for our day, when pernicious ideologies drown out the voice of nature.
Scott Yenor
Children represent hope, and people without hope are not going to be bribed into having children.
We must re-train our ears to hear what social justice ideology peddles.
Hofstadter was too much a partisan to notice his own blinders, and too little a philosopher to see the permanent things.
The 2020 election did not decide once and for all the future of liberty in America.
Revolutions involve conspiracies of a sort—suppressed intentions and a peaceable surface combined with a determined adherence to the revolutionary cause.
Did the practice of civility, if such there was, stave off our culture wars or abet them?
Our deepest official lie is that the line between good and evil runs through sexes, classes, and races—not through every human heart.
Deaths of despair are related to questions of meaning and the psychological conditions for social malaise.
No strictly political community brings political salvation.
Products of the old education would have cheeks that burn red when the country was disrespected. Today’s students only blush at their own "privilege."
No stable common ground has been found with the Left as they march through our institutions creating new, ever more radical and unhealthy ones.
Dostovesky suggests an appeal to the nation untouched with a concern for eternity itself will prove insufficient to defeat ideology.
What goes into one’s body can sometimes be an object for public concern; the question is when and how.
There is no guarantee that science, technology, liberal democracy, commercial greatness, or military strength will go on much longer in a liberal regime.
The best arguments against deregulating obscenity were made at the most crucial time of policy change; but few ears heard them.
A transpartisan consensus is forming around the importance of families to individual well-being, and the importance of genuine education to self-government.
Communities may restrain liberty. These social features of human nature are as much a part of our mental furniture as the love of liberty—perhaps more so.
Scott Yenor offers a first-hand account of Boise State's transformation from a bastion of the liberal arts to a social justice university.
