Baffled, moved, repulsed. That’s how I’ve felt reading perhaps the world’s most influential book. Yes, the New Testament often baffles me, sometimes moves me, rarely repulses me. But am I right to be repulsed? Well, see for yourself: Those are the words of John the Baptist in the New Testament, based on those of Isaiah...

“Thought-crime.” That’s a famous concept from Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). “Big Brother” is the same. But what about “crimestop”? It’s an Orwellian concept that isn’t famous. But it deserves to be, because it captures so much of what’s dishonest and demented in leftist sloppaganda. This is how Orwell describes the concept in his book: Victims...

Fish swim in water; humans swim in philosophy. But I doubt that any fishes ponder what surrounds and sustains them as fish, just as I know that few humans ponder what surrounds and sustains them as humans. We humans think and know, talk and exist, yet few of us think about thought, think about knowledge,...