President Lincoln has directed Federal ships to reinforce Fort Sumter, indicating that he has finally decided on some sort of plan. The question of how the Federal government would handle military forts based in, and now claimed by, the new southern government has been at the center of arguments for weeks. The Southern governments, including …
I love sentences. Every time I see one I highlight it.
Since our summer conference is about the question, “What is Man?” I have had even more incentive to reflect on this ubiquitous question over the past year. It’s become the context not only for everything I write or think about, but even everything I do. Take, for example, my garden. My favorite time to live …
A question that arises from neo-Darwinism: Can a person or a group of people justifiably attempt to condition other people or groups of people? Another way to ask might be: Is there anything else we can do when we interact with other people? Or: Is there any reason not to deliberately condition others? To raise …
