The Rebirth of Purgatory
While the purgatorial “industries” of Transhumanism might not yet represent a counter-revolution on the order of the Reformation, they are already substantial enough to warrant our attention.
Remembering Kobe with Respect, Not Adulation
Posted on February 5, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: A basketball. (Batistaya via Wikimedia Commons.)
Dear friends: The man bounced a rubber ball for a living.
It’s Complicated
Posted on January 23, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Giant lollipops for sale in Barcelona, Spain. (Michael Ströck, via Wikimedia Commons.)
What’s up with us humans, us American humans, that we’re committing ourselves more and more to unbending postures?
On Critical Thinking
Posted on August 13, 2019
in THR Web Features
Image: William of Nottingham lecturing to a group of students at Oxford or Cambridge (Jacobus le Palmer, c. 1350). Via Wikimedia Commons.
We can only think critically about things about which we have knowledge.
Introducing Our Summer Issue
Welcome to “Reality and Its Alternatives.”
Liberalism Strikes Back
Posted on June 7, 2019
in THR Web Features
Image: Portrait of Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staël-Holstein (1766–1817). Château de Coppet Collection/Heritage Image Partnership/Alamy Stock Photo.
Liberalism today finds itself in the strange position of being the political philosophy that everyone lives by and no one wants to defend.
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