Reasoning has acquired a sketchy, even negative, reputation in recent years. 

The slogan may be appealing, but it is meaningless and deceptive.

"The One-Minute Aquinas" is for anyone who has ever despaired of comprehending the most brilliant theologian who ever lived." - Peter Kreeft

Recently, the word "sacred" was in the news.

To "refute" and to "reform" have different meanings.

Most men, observed Thoreau, live lives of quiet desperation; or perhaps one should say, once lived lives of quiet desperation.

Sir Roger Scruton delivered the following address at the Acton Institute's "Crisis of Liberty in the West" conference in London on December 1, 2016. The text has been mildly edited. A video of the full conference is available online here. – Ed.

The Latin word "simplex" means "without fold," meaning straightforward, guileless, and artless — without any concealment or dissimulation.

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report used to be a big progressive. He even had a show with The Young Turks! But now he's not a progressive. He has left the left. Why? Dave Rubin shares his story.

I suggest, as a corollary to Orwell's prescient observation that (I'm paraphrasing) some things are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them.