This article is a formal Reply to Judge Richard A. Posner’s article published in the Harvard Law Review.2 Posner’s article was actually an amalgamation of lectures he gave as the speaker of the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture series celebrating the 100th anniversary of Holmes’s famous essay, “The Path of Law.” In these lectures, Posner addresses his aversion to what he calls academic moralism,” moral philosophy, legal theory, moral theory and “moral entrepreneurs,” because moral theory lacks the “intellectual cogency or the emotional power to change people’s beliefs or behavior.”
As we approach Christmas, the day we celebrate as the first arrival of Messiah, for my second essay celebrating this blessed season of Advent I call upon the union of ancient traditions; of women prophets whom in both biblical and pagan sources were called oracles, seers, prophets, prophetesses and by a term you may not […]
During this blessed season of Advent, I usually write a Christmas essay. This year, however, due to the extreme need to restore moral, competent and constitutional leadership in office at all levels of government, I am considering writing several essays on various aspects of the eternal Christmas story. It is my prayer that we return […]
During this Thanksgiving holiday, I am reading a revelatory biography on one of my favorite theologians, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (d. April 9, 1945), who, like millions of his fellow German citizens, would become an involuntary victim of Hitler’s fascist government and Nazi genocide literally weeks before the death of Hitler, the fall of Berlin and the […]
Desperate people do desperate things. What would you do for your daily bread? How low would you go for gainful employment? What religious, ethical or constitutional principles would you disregard to allow the government under a demagogue leader, a cowardly Congress and corrupt courts to enact policies and laws that in effect steal money from […]
Feminist icon Betty Friedan is credited with starting the modern-day feminist revolution – though some of the original feminists (e.g., Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott), had they lived to see her, surely would have denounced Friedan as an extremist genocidal demagogue. Suggestive of Marx, Engels, Nietzsche, Mead, Kinsey and Freud, Friedan’s private […]
Feminist icon Betty Friedan is credited with starting the modern-day feminist revolution – though some of the original feminists (e.g., Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott), had they lived to see her, surely would have denounced Friedan as an extremist genocidal demagogue. Suggestive of Marx, Engels, Nietzsche, Mead, Kinsey and Freud, Friedan’s private […]
Continuing my trilogy of three prophets of the sexual revolution – having profiled Sigmund Freud and Margaret Mead – we now come to perhaps the most zealous and fanatical, the person who most effectively and comprehensively used the machinery of “science” (including his iconic lab coats, charts, graphs and reams of data) to hide and […]
Chapter 13 of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World,” has a remarkable critique of “Coming of Age in Samoa” by the anthropologist Margaret Mead. This secular scripture of the left is a logical fallacy created out of whole cloth in the mind of a young graduate student in anthropology who […]
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis and, to a great extent, modern psychology and psychiatry, came of age in Vienna in the late 19th century. At that time Vienna, despite its overt anti-Semitism, was a cultural and intellectual haven for Jews. Freud’s biographers aren’t exactly certain what series of events led to his virulent hatred […]
“The corruption, crime, and incompetence of the D.C. government has been an embarrassment to our nation’s capital for decades. It is long past time that Congress restored the honor and integrity of George Washington to the beautiful city which bears his name.” ~ Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), speaking on the BOWSER Act “It is […]
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling against “Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule” Safeguards Meritocracy Over Mediocrity
“The evidence presented by Nasdaq in its rule proposal, contrary to its claims, does not show that board diversity provides better returns for shareholders.” ~Excerpt from a Manhattan Institute led amicus curiae brief in the case of Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment vs. SEC. “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the […]
The Keep Nine Amendment: A Permanent Solution to Threats of Court-Packing
“I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court. If anything would make the court appear more partisan, it would be that. So, I am not at all in favor of that solution. Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a […]
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