
Wall Weakness on the Left
The political left is standing on the shifting sands of a philosophical vacuum which I have spent many years filling.
The political left is standing on the shifting sands of a philosophical vacuum which I have spent many years filling.
If you are a progressive, perhaps you identify yourself as a Darwinist in relation to the religious right who deny evolution, but you are probably unaware that you are embracing a dark view of human nature—and one that is at the foundation of modern conservatism. In Darwin’s Autobiography (1887), he reports, In October 1838, that …
In The Social Conquest of Earth, E. O. Wilson soft-pedals and sugarcoats the darkness of his vision of human nature so transparently expressed in his novel, Anthill, as similar to chronically warring colonies of ants – all our virtue derives from the cooperation necessary for groups to successfully wage war. In his ant myth of …
Before proceeding on the FAQ series, we need to establish some definitions. The word, “belief” has been hijacked by science to refer to theories that have been tested sufficiently to accept them temporarily until the next theory comes along. Before serious science arrived in the 17th century, belief used to mean loyalty, like to a …