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Heroic Materialism in European Culture – Part I
I’d like to begin this column with a quote from the June 9, 2004 report in the European Policy...
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Postmodernist Theses
Already in the early parts of the twentieth century there were currents against modernism, especially in art and architecture...
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NPC’s: Non-player Character, God and Lifeline Theology
The God many people imagine is omniscient. He knows everything. It’s handy to have a relationship with someone who...
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Philosophizing: Hard Because It’s Easy
A man boasts about his successful marriage.“What’s your secret?” a friend asks.“Simple division of labor,” the husband says. “I...
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Prelude to Post-modernism
By the close of the nineteenth century, physics and biology, science more generally, had attained a level of success...
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Fallibalism: Every belief is a bet but some bets are better than others
The other day I had a very interesting conversation with a truly engaged and engaging Christian. We were talking...
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Western Civilization at the Crossroads – II
At first glance, Vichian paradoxical thinking (the both/and) seems to defy the Aristotelian principle of non-contradiction (the either/or). The...
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Declaration of In(ter)dependents
Metanexus is not a political organization, but I hope you will indulge me for a brief observation. We’re coming...
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Rung Running: Getting good at distinguishing “within” from “about” in everyday interaction
In thought and conversation we each take a variety of perspectives, many of which are nested or hierarchical. That...
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Western Civilization at the Crossroads – I
What will future historians and cultural anthropologists have to say about Western Civilization at the turn of the new...