Now that American general Norman Schwartzkopf has been laid to rest and all the accolades befitting a war hero have been bestowed upon him, it’s probably safe to look a little more objectively at the man. There is little doubt that in the military, Schwartzkopf was much admired for his loyalty and support of American […]

The aftermath of Newtown and the long awaited response from the NRA gave me the chance to reflect on the ideas of a natural “moral sense” about which philosophers have long argued.  Thinkers like Hutcheson, Hume, and Hobbes all debated whether man was born with a sixth “sense” that allowed him to detect the “moral” […]