Education

Reason vs. Wokeness in the Montessori World

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In a recent lecture entitled “During These Turbulent Times, What Is The One Thing the Child Needs To Know?,” Montessori teacher and author Charlotte Cushman brilliantly integrates epistemology and pedagogy. Before I could get around to posting the above recommendation, a second reason to write about Charlotte has arisen. The woke in the Montessori world […]

Politics

Monetary Exit Ramp

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How do you defend against a nefarious attacker? You prepare for the threat years in advance, so that you possess overwhelming superiority. Western leaders have blown that opportunity—again. Our side won World War I, and un-won it less than a generation later. We won WWII, and un-won it less than a generation later. We un-won […]

Politics

Woke Theory in 19 Words

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Thankfully, capable intellectuals are fighting back against the neo-Marxist “woke” ideology, which encompasses critical race theory, intersectionality, LGBT ideology, queer theory, gender studies, feminism, postcolonialism, disability studies, fat studies, and social justice. For a partial list of counters to the woke coalition of malcontents, see my recent blog post entitled “Farewell, Cedar City.” With so […]

Economics

Cryptocurrencies: Follow-Up

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Regarding Question 1 from my previous post on cryptocurrencies, I want to address an argument made by some proponents of cryptos. An example of this argument was made by Robert Breedlove, a popular proponent of Bitcoin, on the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast #124 (beginning at the 59:15 mark), in response to the question, “What about the […]

Economics

Cryptocurrencies: Challenge Questions

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Until recently, I had paid little attention to cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, because they seemed to be just another form of fiat currency—backed by nothing of real value. They seemed to be a reductio ad absurdum—a spoof—of government-issued fiat currency: If a government can declare money into existence from nothing, then so can an anonymous […]

Education

Farewell, Cedar City

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Expel the state-run university, save your freedom. The video embedded below is an expanded version of a talk I gave on August 5, 2021, bidding farewell to Cedar City, Utah. I left this rural town because critical race theory has thoroughly infected the local state-run university, Southern Utah University. To save the town, local citizens […]

Art

Happy Atlas Shrugged Day 2021

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I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day (September 2) each year by opening to a random page of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, on page 790 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part III, Chapter II (“The Utopia of Greed”): Of any one person, of any […]

Breathing

Breathe

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One afternoon last week, near the end of a physical workout at home, I felt a fluttering in my chest. I took my pulse, and it was very erratic: fast beats followed by a long pause, more fast beats, another long pause, etc. After a couple of minutes of more of the same, I called […]

Romantic Love

Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty — Second Edition

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I am pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of my book Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage. The book, in paperback listed for $13 and as an ebook listed for $5, is available on Amazon and in other bookstores through Amazon’s expanded distribution. […]

Education

God Bless Yeonmi Park and Jordan B. Peterson

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Some readers of this blog may wonder why I have not written recently on politics. Sadly, the disastrous Biden administration is a predictable sequel to the Obama administration, which I blogged about for eight years. Thankfully, I live in relocated to a red dot in a red state, where Biden got less than 20% of […]