Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Apologetics

  • What Our National Survival Depends On

    Our great founders understood that immigrants bring their culture with them, and that some cultures are toxic to our own.  They understood that there can be no comity without commonality, that immigration without assimilation is a recipe for disaster, and that unity, not diversity, is the source of our strength. As Alexander Hamilton warned, America’s survival…

  • Bare Assertion and Circularity

    "There is no evidence because there is no evidence." Thus some shyster defending Hunter Biden against charges of wrongdoing. I am tempted to call this a presuppositional approach to political apologetics.  A circular argument is an argument, but because the 'diameter' of the circle is zero, it is no better than a bare assertion. It…