Post-Katrina New Orleans Is a Happy Place
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 17th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Post-Katrina New Orleans Is a Happy Place
Ethics Inquiries in Congress Increase
Dismantling America
Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics
“We the people” are the familiar opening words of the Constitution of the United States– the framework for a self-governing people, free from the arbitrary edicts of rulers. It was the blueprint for America, and the success of America made that blueprint something that other nations sought to follow.At the time when it was written, however, the Constitution was a radical departure from the autocratic governments of the 18th century. Since it was something so new and different, the reasons for the Constitution's provisions were spelled out in “The Federalist,” a book…
The Surprising Moral Force of Disgust
Drake Bennett, Boston Globe
“Two things fill my mind with ever renewed wonder and awe the more often and deeper I dwell on them,” wrote Immanuel Kant, “the starry skies above me, and the moral law within me.”Where does moral law come from? What lies behind our sense of right and wrong? For millennia, there have been two available answers. To the devoutly religious, morality is the word of God, handed down to holy men in groves or on mountaintops. To moral philosophers like Kant, it is a set of rules to be worked out by reason, chin on fist like Rodin’s thinker.
