Which came first, the Good or the Bad in World Civilization? Part I
A debate might begin this way:
Satan bragged to Jesus in the Wilderness that he was the master of all the world's Kingdoms, and he would...
The Nature of Good pre-Civilization? The Civilized Older Days? Part II
(Picking up from Part I, a framing of the general question; Which came first, Good or Evil?):
The kind of heavy-handed Evil we have been describing here can...
Darwin Agrees with God More Than You Know
In the 13th Century there was an interesting Franciscan friar named Ramon Llull (pronounced “yoohl”), who, like another philosopher 400 years later named Pascal,...
The Free Press and Human Liberty
Of all the freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, nothing confounds a Free people more than the Freedom of the Press. 245 years...
Satan’s Chronicles; A Prelude
I've been working on a book for about six years, "Satan's History of the United States". I originally intended to model it after Schweikart...
The Hero in Nature, and the Pagan Ideal of Good
In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about "Heroes and Hero-Worship". I'm trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read...
Delba Wintrop’s “Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science: From Claremont Review of Books
(This is an essay by Paul Ludwig in the Claremont Institute's Review of Books Spring 2020, entitled "Public Spiritedness". about Delba Wintrop's posthumously published Aristotle: Democracy...
How Things Work
After spending 20 years learning how things worked on the upper floors of government (military) bureaucracy and Fortune 500 corporate management I spent another 20 years...
American Apologetics
An Introduction
"Apologetics" is generally defined as religious arguments originally used by early church fathers to defend what would eventually become Christian doctrine, to both non-believers who...
Satan’s Falling Out With God, News You Need
In the story I'm developing about Satan's battle against God I'm relying on JRR Tolkein's fictional rendering of their primordial relationship... in part because...