Love Makings
Poetry - “Yet there is no one thing, no attribute/Of yours that I can fix on, nothing/I can abstract, describe, isolate…” 2/7/2023

Arguments Against School Choice Presume We Have Options
The Center - “In short, if public schooling on average is so woefully inadequate, how can we take seriously the argument that if a family cannot afford or otherwise access private or home schooling, public schooling is a perfectly sufficient choice?” 2/3/2023

Stop Pretending All Cultures Are the Same
The Left - “So I will say it with my heart, and others should too: If a culture persecutes LGBT people, is overtly racist, or makes women second class citizens, then to hell with that culture. My culture is better than that one.” 1/27/2023

The Value in Reading Byung-Chul Han
The Right - “Han occupies a somewhat unique position in today’s world that defies typical Right-Left categorization. This is partly because of Han’s bridging of multiple worlds: East and West; art and philosophy; theology and politics.” 1/22/2023

The Case for Retiring “Confederate Heroes Day”
The Left - “As we come to know more about the morally repulsive aspects of our national history—and, more importantly, face those realities—removing symbols of our collective failure in the past is not an attempt to deny our history. Rather, it is a sign of growth, a willingness to face our history.” 1/19/2023

Multiculturalism Is Madness
The Right - “The fact is that, historically, Great Britain has had a remarkably stable demographic makeup for at least a thousand years, if not much longer. The idea that what we have experienced since 1997…is in any way comparable or equivalent to the past is nonsense, at best, and disingenuous, at worst.” 1/19/2023

Free Speech: An Eternal Struggle
The Center - “While Americans and other Westerners may be living in a golden age of free speech, there are still billions of people in the world who have yet to enjoy its blessings.” 1/16/2023

Philadelphia Schools Have Replaced Critical Thinking with “Criticality”
The Center - “Like so many school districts in a post-George Floyd America, Philadelphia’s is rushing to embrace anti-racism.” 1/11/2023

Understanding Why Netanyahu Won
The Center - “Whatever else one may think about the unholy trinity of Prime Minister Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Bezalel Smotrich, they are, among other things, willing to discuss the serious internal security concerns that much of the country outside of Tel Aviv faces.” 1/11/2023

We Are All Socialists
The Right - “Echoing this notion from on high, in 2016 the [World Economic Forum] announced the imminence of a post-historical future in the Marxist sense: ‘Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.'” 12/21/2022

What Is a Human?
The Center - “In fact, heterosexuality and the male-female binary can be observed across countless species. The onus of proof, therefore, is on those who claim that we are an exception.” 12/21/2022

Work Is About Knowledge That Pays and Relationships That Are Priceless
The Center - “And both wages and relationships advance worker opportunity, the essential elements of which are what individuals know (i.e., profitable knowledge) and whom they know (i.e., priceless relationships).” 12/15/2022

The Boredom of War
The Right - “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s biggest enemy is not the West’s reticence to sending more drones, more weapons, and more fighter jets. President Zelenskyy’s biggest enemy is boredom.” 12/12/2022

Mary Harrington: On a Philosophy of Limits
The Right - “And my argument is that freedom and progress in the context of the cyborg era are actually inimical to women’s interests. They don’t make things better for any women, except [for] a very small, elite subset.” 12/7/2022

Abortion and the Mythic Mother
Personal Essay - “They do not realize good mothering comes from fearlessness. Few things promote more fear than being deprived of control of one’s own body.” 12/5/2022
