Category Archives: Ethics

Our Political Problems Are Moral

Posted on July 22, 2016 by William Holland

When Lev Davidovich Bronshtein (pen name Leon Trotsky) wrote about homo Soveiticus, the new breed of man born under the pall of terror; a subject of tyrannical social engineering by the State, he was referencing a utopian conviction that contemporary capitalist states now … Continue reading →

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Human Capital & The Challenge of OUR Time

Posted on April 1, 2016 by William Holland

Abraham Maslow spent his life discerning interior trends that motivate the human person toward a unity not seen in other mammals; a unity of personality, toward spontaneous expressiveness, toward full responsibility, toward full individuality; an unrepeatable identity. Of seeing truth … Continue reading →

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French Catholic Priest Beheaded in Syria: Francois Murad Martyred

Posted on July 2, 2013 by William Holland

Last Wednesday evening, after having being taken captive/kidnapped by Sunni terror squads in southern Syrian town of Gassanieh, Father Francois Murad was beheaded in front of children, martyred for his faith; his identity as Christian. We should note that the … Continue reading →

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Specialization & The Cowardice It Produces: Academic Pusillanimity

Posted on March 15, 2013 by William Holland

Arnold Toynbee’s “Study of History” has extensive notation on the impact that is specialization.  Typically, specialization has no consequences, except when you live in an age of disruption like ours!  Specialization has social, political consequences.  Any brief look at writers … Continue reading →

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How Western Civilization Triumphed Over Every Civilization

Posted on October 28, 2012 by William Holland

Teaching Aristotle or Plato is often hard if not downright difficult, especially when you try to cover the “epoch” between his time and ours.  I mean something very specific. What underwrites Western Civilization is a Judeo-Christian ethic.  Prior to this … Continue reading →

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Genocide, Francophile Africa & The Colonial Mind

Posted on October 4, 2012 by William Holland

Contemporary education is no longer capable of discerning nor appreciating the philosophical distinctions that reeled the ancient world, any person familiar with Patristic thought can indeed understand how Francophile Africa, specifically Rwanda became a conduit for genocide.  Yes, the British … Continue reading →

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Conrad Black: Militant Positivism & The Diversity Police

Posted on May 23, 2012 by William Holland

Two months ago ‘The New Criterion’ published an essay explaining the lynching that was done to Conrad Black in the name of ‘diversity’.  I must admit that I remained perplexed until I read that essay, for I only remember what … Continue reading →

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The Wager: God & Tyranny

Posted on December 20, 2011 by William Holland

If the deaths of Kim Jong II, Christopher Hitchens and Vaclav Havel can be surmised briefly it is this:  no mere Machiavellian calculus is sufficient concerning the scales by which men discern the movement of Nations. The end of the … Continue reading →

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The Primacy Of Samuel Beckett In The Modernist Oeuvre

Posted on December 13, 2011 by William Holland

The term ‘modernism’ is one of those words that conjures up various meanings to be almost impossible to describe given its depth and swath of credence among disciplines.  It is only distinctly understood from within the house of orthodox theology … Continue reading →

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The Limits Of Political Accommodation: Herodian Strategy For Survival In An Age Of Absolutes

Posted on December 13, 2011 by William Holland

The Roman Catholic Church has a very long distinguished history of playing a Machiavellian hand with secular leaders.  Witness the long tenure of John Paul II in Poland regarding both his strategy to break the Warsaw Pact along with hardened … Continue reading →

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