Columnists

Jonathan Kraut

Jonathan Kraut | Trump, Xi Share Same 6 Failures

A criticism of the communist system includes that modern communist regimes are all about diminishing freedoms and squelching any opposition in order to sustain firm control over its population. Modern communism

David Hegg

David Hegg | The Ethics of Commitment

By David Hegg I recently watched the systematic dissolution of several married couples. All of them were good people and there was no infidelity on either side. The reason they

David Hegg

David Hegg | What Consciousness Tells Us

By David Hegg The straightforward assertions of Thomas Nagel, a tenured university professor of philosophy and law at New York University, in his book “Mind & Cosmos,” have robustly shaken

Commentary by Andrew Taban

Andrew Taban | Finding Words in a World Gone Mad

I find myself staring at a blank page, wrestling with an unusual case of writer’s block. Perhaps it’s the relentless chaos of this administration, the calculated bombardment of daily outrages

David Hegg

David Hegg | Ethical One-Anothering

By David Hegg Except for those striving to live “off the grid” in the backwoods, we all live in community with at least hundreds of other humans. And therein lies