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Today’s Golden Age of Philosophy
By Robert Hutchinson (7/8/10)
Few people know this, but our age is an amazing time for people who love philosophy. When I was in college 30 years ago, philosophy was strictly an academic exercise and there were few resources available for people, like me, who view philosophy more as a way of life or avocation than as a job. Today, however, all that has changed.
The Perils of Legal Positivism
By Robert Hutchinson (7/1/10)
It goes without saying that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is a charming, intelligent, well-spoken woman who, unlike most politicians, gives every impression of being a genuine “moderate” in her views, someone who understands the complexities involved in great social issues and who is willing to acknowledge that people of good will could disagree with her. Yet there was one point in the confirmation hearings that revealed an ideological seed that, I fear, will grow into something quite disturbing during the 30 years or more she will be seated on the bench. And that is her apparent agnosticism towards the existence of unalienable natural or human rights.
Confessions of a Climate Skeptic
By Robert Hutchinson (12/8/09)
Believers in catastrophic global warming may turn out to be right. But for forty years, liberal Democrats have been insisting that the end of the world is coming soon — from air pollution, overpopulation, mass famine, oil shortages, even “the coming ice age.” Their predictions of global apocalypse have been so spectacularly wrong so often that most people with common sense no longer take them seriously.
To See What Democrats Will Do to America, Look at Britain Today
By Robert Hutchinson (9/29/09)
If you want to know what regulation-happy Democrats are about to do to America, all you have to do is visit Great Britain. There you will see what the Democrats’ ideological soul mates, the British “New” Labour party, have done to that once-great nation.
The Real Reason Why Health Care is So Expensive
By Robert Hutchinson (7/25/09)
A cut finger on the Fourth of July sent us to the Emergency Room… where the bill ended up nearly $1,000 for five minutes of bandaging.
The Biblical Roots of Thanksgiving
By Robert Hutchinson (11/10/2007)
Unbeknownst to many Americans, Thanksgiving is yet another legacy of the Biblical heritage that shaped American law and culture over the centuries.
The Return of Medical Fascism
By Robert Hutchinson (8/23/2008)
Anti-religious zealots are heralding the recent decision by the California Supreme Court to compel physicians to provide ethically questionable medical procedures to patients even if those procedures violate the physicians’ ethical or religious beliefs.
