Ok I get it: the title of this piece reads very high and esoteric. But please do bear with me. I really think we're onto something. What I want to do today is to discuss Michael Oakeshott and explore ...

Positivism seems to be having a bit of a moment. To give just one example, last month, COMPACT ran a very interesting essay on Comte's "Religion of Humanity," a nineteenth-century version of a ...

The triumph of the concept of rationalism, which lay at the center of the processes that formed our Western civilization from the 16 th century on, was not as swift or easy as it would seem to the ...

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2004.00276.x https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2004.00276.x When Nietzsche launched the postmodern attack on the ...

This article looks at God and religion from the position of rationalism, an approach to life based on reason and evidence. Rationalism is an approach to life based on reason and evidence. Rationalism ...

Late last year, when Luigi Mangione was arrested and charged with the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, something unexpected happened: A lot of people praised him for his actions, ...

*Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 320 pages, $49.50. * Moses Maimonides (Rambam, in traditional parlance) has been widely lionized as the greatest mind in Jewish history. Even before his death ...

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One morning in the summer of 2015, I sat in a featureless office in Berkeley as a young computer programmer walked me through how he intended to save the world. The world needed saving, he insisted, ...

In the 1930s, while Americans were enraptured with Art Deco`s streamlined style, the Italians were creating some of their best design ever. They called it Rationalism, and many of the chairs and ...