My review of The Bostonians, one of my favorite classic novels.

Continuing with the theme of the oppressor-oppressed paradigm, James Chastek recently wrote: Liberalism is universalist through taking human equality as self-evident, with the equality understood as a universal distribution of rights. … On this account, those without resources also play a role, but since all have equal access to resources by their innate rights, some… Read more: Chastek on liberalism and inequality

I’ve been reading essays here and there from Steve Sailer’s anthology Noticing. In “Jews and Noblesse Oblige“, I came across this insight I thought worth highlighting: For noblesse oblige to work, privileged and influential groups have to be publicly acknowledged to be privileged and influential. If, on the other hand, their main sense of collective… Read more: Sailer on noblesse oblige

The second part of my essay on liberalism is up. I cover the roles that meritocracy and the ‘oppressor-oppressed’ paradigm play in liberalism.

I have posted a book review of Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation by J. P. Moreland.