Someone once said that we are all either Platonists or Aristotelians. What does this mean, and why should it matter to those of us involved...

There is, of course, a lot of discussion regarding yesterday's murder of George Tiller, who made a living performing late-term abortions...

Here is Robert Schlesinger in U. S. News on Gallup's latest poll: According to the poll, a strong majority of Americans (57 percent) co...

I was quoted in the Lexington Herald-Leader last Friday : Martin Cothran, the head of Say No to Casinos, declined to comment on a potential...

The Associated Press quotes me in its story on slots at tracks on Sunday. It was picked up by Phillyburbs.com: "We have Kentuckians w...

I attended a wedding this weekend in which my son, Thomas, who is a fair expert in the philosopher of Martin Heidegger, was the best man. U...

As S. M. Oliva at the Ludwig von Mises Institute points out, in regard to Obama's new Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Obama has c...

Well, I didn't even notice it until yesterday, but the Lexington Herald-Leader ran my piece on the unconstitutionality of video slot m...

From Harvard economist Greg Mankiw's Blog : A common argument, often made by ostensibly sophisticated commentators, is that the United S...

Leon Kass, one of our now 11 Modern Wise Men , in his 2003 Jefferson Lecture: Everyone has heard the story of Diogenes the Cynic who went ar...

Why don't we just suspend habeas corpus while we're at it: Under current law, crimes motivated by bias against a victim's race, ...

Increasing evidence that P. J. O'Roarke's warning ("If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs...