The Spiritual Nation of Wilma Mankiller
From poverty to the chiefdom, the Cherokee Nation’s first female head of state continues to inspire self-determination even in death. How exactly did she manage to lead men in accordance with the dictates of the universal spirit?
Stroking the Heads of Man's Moral Discontentment
The most basic theology tells us that no individual can prevent the preordained from happening. So what makes Man so morally discontented?
Dispatches from Laguna Beach
The very economic forces that produce anarchy under certain circumstances are often found, in other places, to have resulted in the strictest authority. What part of Laguna Beach do you live in?
The Many Faces of Canadian Polygamy
Social critics say there’s no place for celestial marriage in Her Majesty’s Canada, but the numbers tell a different story.
Tried and Untrue Gods: A Missourian Legacy of High-Flown Ignorance and Mental Laziness
Hegel says cryptically: ‘Truth is not to treat objects as alien.’ But for the economist Keynes, the problem of satisfying human needs is a purely technical concern: “For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not.”
