Why Virtue Is the Price of Freedom
Cortical reasoning, responsibility, restraint, and virtue are the bedrock of freedom. Freedom has always demanded more of human beings than any other political arrangement. It asks us to govern ourselves before we presume to govern anything else. The…
Read MoreWhat Ancient Philosophers Knew of Limbic First Thinking
Prelude This essay advances a single, integrated argument: that human freedom is not a first-response phenomenon but a second-round capacity — cultivated, earned, and architecturally real. Drawing on four converging intellectual traditions, it…
Read MoreWhy Do Conservatives and Progressives Act So Differently? Their Brains Are Wired That Way.
Here’s the thing most people miss in every political argument: neither side is primarily thinking their way through politics. Both sides are feeling their way through it — and building the argument afterward to explain what they already felt.…
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