Eichenberger: The West’s Suicide Pact
by Dan Eichenberger M.D. We once built civilizations on the raw edge of uncomfortable speech. Now we demand trigger warnings for the Iliad and therapy puppies for election results. This isn’t progress. It’s civilizational decay. Let’s look back without the rose-tinted glasses of modern sensitivity and we’ll see the ancient Greeks didn’t invent “safe spaces” — they invented parrhesia, the Read the full article…
Eichenberger: The West’s Suicide Pact
by Dan Eichenberger M.D. We once built civilizations on the raw edge of uncomfortable speech. Now we demand trigger warnings for the Iliad and therapy puppies for election results. This isn’t progress. It’s civilizational decay. Let’s look back without the rose-tinted glasses of modern sensitivity and we’ll see the ancient Greeks didn’t invent “safe spaces” — they invented parrhesia, the Read the full article…
Franke: Our Revolutionary War Vet
by Mark Franke With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and all, the number of patriotic events and ceremonies seems endless. I’m not complaining about that; I think it is a good thing that we are looking back to this important founding document and its timeless truths. We need its encouragement now more than Read the full article…
The Outstater
Not a Traitor, Exactly DEMOCRATIC ‘REPRESENTATION’ has lost any meaning. This year, 90 percent of representatives to the U.S. House will be determined before a general election, that is, gerrymandering will allow our “representatives” to choose who they “represent.” Mulling this upside-down state of affairs, the question occurs: Can we even define who we are not? Read the full article…
Eichenberger: The Linguistic Assault on Reality
by Dan Eichenberger M.D. Language remains one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Spoken words helped early humans cooperate, hunt and pass down knowledge. Written language allowed civilizations to record laws, ideas and stories for future generations. Today, language is under attack. The political Left, particularly progressive activists who dominate many colleges, news outlets and major corporations, Read the full article…
Franke: The Declaration Parchment
by Mark Franke With the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, there is a plethora of new books written about this major event. Most focus on the Declaration’s language and its meaning, especially its most memorable sentence in the second paragraph. That’s understandable but I am a contrarian by nature so I have been wondering Read the full article…
