Of all the freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, nothing confounds a Free people more than the Freedom of the Press. 245 years of…
Category: Apologetics
How Things Work
After spending 20 years learning how things worked on the upper floors of government (military) bureaucracy and Fortune 500 corporate management I spent another 20 years at…
Delba Wintrop’s “Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science: From Claremont Review of Books
(This is an essay by Paul Ludwig in the Claremont Institute’s Review of Books Spring 2020, entitled “Public Spiritedness”. about Delba Wintrop’s posthumously published Aristotle: Democracy and…
The Hero in Nature, and the Pagan Ideal of Good
In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about “Heroes and Hero-Worship”. I’m trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read English,…
The Nature of Good pre-Civilization? The Civilized Older Days? Part II
(Picking up from Part I, a framing of the general question; Which came first, Good or Evil?): The kind of heavy-handed Evil we have been describing here can…
Which came first, the Good or the Bad in World Civilization? Part I
A debate might begin this way: Satan bragged to Jesus in the Wilderness that he was the master of all the world’s Kingdoms, and he would…