Learn a Lot of Science

A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to him.

Louis Pasteur

The Real Motives of Leftists

The real motives of liberals have nothing to do with the welfare of other people. Instead, they have two related goals—to establish themselves as morally and intellectually superior to the rather distasteful population of common people, and to gather as much power as possible to tell those distasteful common people how they must live their lives.

Thomas Sowell

Europe is Saying, “Uh Oh”

Europe is belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward the people who have let them in.

Thomas Sowell

Why Are Public Schools Failures?

There is really nothing very mysterious about why our public schools are failures. When you select the poorest quality college students to be public school teachers, give them iron-clad tenure, a captive audience, and pay them according to seniority rather than performance, why should the results be surprising?

Thomas Sowell

LEFTIST Ignorance

What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.

George Orwell

Western Civilization Going Down Hill

Historically, Western civilization — rooted in Christianity layered atop Greco-Roman thought — held that moral truth is objective, individuals are responsible for cultivating virtue, and justice flows from doing what is right rather than merely equalizing outcomes: first define the good, then pursue justice. Over the last century, that order has steadily reversed. Today, many institutions operate on the assumption that whatever feels equitable or balances group outcomes is therefore moral, even when achieving that “fairness” requires deception, coercion, collective punishment, or the abandonment of long-standing norms.

Trying to frame it a little tighter, the best I can do is to say I believe Western civilization is quietly moving from a moral system grounded in virtue and objective good to one grounded in outcomes and perceived fairness. When fairness is severed from moral truth, it becomes a tool of power rather than justice.

Michael Smith, A Civilization Losing Its Moral Compass

Philosophy Essentials

When you strip philosophy down to its essentials, it’s really about three things: whether God exists, whether we have souls, and whether we are truly free. Together, they answer the question of how we should live. If we are free, if God exists, and if there is something beyond this life, then our choices carry real weight. Human reason seems built for this purpose — not just to understand the world, but to guide our moral behavior.

Michael Smith, A Civilization Losing Its Moral Compass