Political Speech Acts
Bryan Wandel A couple of months ago, Hadley Arkes and Matthew O’Brien had a debate in Public Discourse about what…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Knowing, Believing, Saying
Religion Dispatches reports on a Philosopher of Religion who has given up on philosophy of religion. “I just cannot take…
Facts and Values at the Texas Board of Education
Edward Kennedy or Billy Graham? Margaret Sanger or Phyllis Schlafly? Who is more important? In the war over education content,…
Thoughts on Wittgenstein
Logic is everything we know. In some sense. Ludwig Wittgenstein and logic Ludwig Wittgenstein’s examinations into the where logic can take…
The Nuclear Option
The President has effected a significant move toward “nuclear disarmament” (we all know the actual meaning is a more vague…