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The End of Philosophy

“I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible….” A couple of months ago, I installed Substack. I didn’t know much about Substack before installing it and after having used it (as a reader not a writer), I still don’t know much about it. Nevertheless, downloading it and entering the stream of inchoate thoughts intensified a sentiment I had been ruminating on for some time. I think if there is any conclusion to be drawn from the proliferation of content in our age it is that most of everyone has not much to say. Everyone is a writer and not many people have anything worth writing. Everyone has opinions and not many people have opinions worth eight cents. Everyone has something to say and, at the same time, nothing to say. In other words, giving everyone a platform has made us (or, rather, me) realize that no one really deserves one.  I am, of course, nothing but a hypocrite in saying this. I am writing my opinion of other p...

In Defense of Motorcycles

  “There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything.” - G.K. Chesterton I once heard of a boy (about 16 or 17) who wanted a motorcycle. But above all, he wanted his father's approval and made the prudent choice of asking his father not only for permission but also for his opinion. The father, being as prudent as his son (prudence being a product of synergy if not hereditary), told him to write out all the ways owning a motorcycle might bring glory to God. The son, seeing the wisdom in such a task, went out and attempted it. Later, he came back and informed his father he decided he didn't want a motorcycle. The exact reason he changed his mind is a bit unclear to me, though I make the reasonable inference the son was unable to see how God might be glorified in his motorcycle and therefore concluded it was not worth having. Both p...

Trusting the System

  Zohran Mamdani's impending mayorship puts our democratic system to the test. New York City elected a new mayor yesterday, 34-year-old upstart Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, glibly espouses all sorts of progressive economic policies designed to lower the high cost of living in NYC. Foremost among these are freezing rent prices, a free subway system, and city-owned grocery stores: a classic-hits lineup of Failed-Every-Time Socialism singles. Even so, boosted by an incredibly well-run political campaign, Mamdani shocked the establishment Democrat candidate Andrew Cuomo in the primary, and then, yesterday, defeated him again in the general election. Inconsolable, our nation's news-cycle artists are in turmoil.  Republicans and Democrats each have their problems with Mamdani. Mainstream Democrats remain, for the most part, leery of so openly tearing down the comfort of our free-market system, along with the alienation of important wealthy donors...