Thirteen good reasons why Ayn Rand’s works are…

Mark SunwallApr 19, 2023

Posted on April 18, 2023 “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Today, even as the clocks…

Libertarianism And Its Cultured Despisers

Mark SunwallFeb 22, 2023

Posted by nouspraktikon on February 18, 2023 A review of D.C. Schindler, Freedom from Reality The diabolical character of modern liberty University of Notre…

MATERIALISM AS THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF TOTALITARIANISM, DEMONSTRATED…

Mark SunwallOct 13, 2022

Choose your world, choose your regime By Mark Sunwall, 10/7/22 Is the universe comprised of souls or composed of matter? If you consider that…

From Eternity to here: A brief note on…

Mark SunwallJun 2, 2022

Posted on May 29, 2022 Before there was Post-modernism there was Modernism…and it was already too late There is a general feeling among non-mainstream…

Ayn Rand as a Simplified Scheler?

Mark SunwallMar 25, 2022

A salesperson for philosophy Professional philosophers usually get embarrassed when the name Ayn Rand comes up. Yes, she was a better writer than a…

The reality of Platonic love and the Song…

Mark SunwallMar 8, 2022

Do you believe in love after God? The contention of modernity is that the human mind is an organism exclusively dedicated to survival, which…

If The Whole World Celebrated Chanukah, The World…

Mark SunwallDec 7, 2021

In these unsettled times the light of Chanukah has shinned on those who have observed it, and even more brightly on those who understand…

Did Kantianism Destroy Civilization?

Mark SunwallJul 11, 2021

Rounding up an unusual suspect In the general malaise and recrimination of present America, it is clear that much of what was once called…

Not an Election, a Plebiscite on the Social…

Mark SunwallOct 28, 2020

The 2020 election is different. VOTE! In 2020, there is no excuse not to vote. I completely understand the Anarcho-libertarian view that all politics…

The Purity of Averroes’ Common Intellect Vs. Today’s…

Mark SunwallJun 26, 2020

No truth without one intellect in common Contrary to the radical relativism, individualism, and tribalism of today, the best minds of the past taught…

Real God, Fake Churches: Jacques Ellul is Laughing…

Mark SunwallJun 4, 2020

The great church cave-in…was It is tempting to see the church lockdown as some new thing challenging the unchallengable…the sovereignty of God.  Actually it…

Flesh Gordon, or why the crises are different…

Mark SunwallApr 3, 2020

Elite Panic It seems we have entered into a new age. I doubt that the present “health crisis” should be taken as its onset,…

Can Mises’ Praxiology be Considered a Special Case…

Mark SunwallMar 25, 2020

The thin ethics of libertarianism: In search of a solution Daniel Ajamian has recently restated Murray Rothbard’s philosophical foundation for libertarian ethics. As all…

Why do we Love? vs. Why Should we…

Mark SunwallApr 24, 2019

The answer is determined by our initial question When our conversations comes around to love, sometimes it’s “Why do we?” and sometimes it’s “Why…

Who put the damn in Notre Dame?

Mark SunwallApr 16, 2019

We have met the enemy and he is us There is a near universal sadness and shock at the loss of what is arguably…

The Cost of Pseudo-Enlightenment: Libertarian Ideology at the…

Mark SunwallApr 6, 2019

A movement (rightly) divided We are slouching towards a civil war. I’m not alluding to a civil war within the American body politic. Hopefully…