Self-Evident

22/11/2023

As Thanksgiving approaches, Americans prepare for a holiday marked by higher grocery prices this year.

21/11/2023

Curation is not book-banning.

21/11/2023

Free speech means unlimited content, but with that entitlement comes responsibility.

20/11/2023

Despite the emphasis placed on Iowa by campaigns and the media, winning the state has not proven to be very predictive of overall success in Presidential primary contests.

18/11/2023

The Bronze Age Mindset enables a manliness of crass decadence, irreverence, and hedonism, while true manliness involves the chivalrous notions of duty, reverence, and self-sacrifice.

18/11/2023

In this week's episode of the Self-Evident podcast. Justin Stapley flies solo, discussing the troubling rise of anti-semitism and reckoning with the ugliness of war.

Listen now (46 mins) | The unprecedented rise of anti-semitism in America and across the world should give us all pause. Also, reckoning with the ugliness of war.

17/11/2023

In this week's issue of Self-Evident, Justin Stapley takes a much-needed break from punditry and deep dives into some political theory, discussing Hobbes, the fundamental provisions of justice, and touching on the age-old debate between prescription and reason.

Nerding out with some good, old-fashioned political theory.

16/11/2023

Political issues are complex, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make moral judgments on these issues.

16/11/2023

Haley and DeSantis both show their seriousness in an era awash in Republican non-seriousness.

Haley and DeSantis both show their seriousness in an era awash in Republican non-seriousness.

16/11/2023

The establishment of majority power.

14/11/2023

It's time to put away this silly notion that the problems that plague America end at some partisan or left-right divide.

14/11/2023

Some people would rather hate the free market than help the poor.

14/11/2023

Yes, the designs of Russia, Iran, and China are part of the same fight, and the outcome of this fight will set the tone for world peace or spiraling regional instability for the rest of the century.

13/11/2023

Those "loopholes" are there for a reason.

13/11/2023

The partnership of free markets and traditionalism has a much older history in the Anglo-American tradition, and thicker philosophical compatibility, than fusionism's detractors are willing to admit.

10/11/2023

For the pro-life movement, the hour at hand demands humility.

10/11/2023

Who defines what the "common good" is?

09/11/2023

A familiar story.

09/11/2023

09/11/2023

A review of Irving Kristol's "Two Cheers for Capitalism."

07/11/2023

Polling data is increasingly pointing to a propaganda coup rather than actual radicalization of Republicans as the best explanation for the rise of Trump and Trumpism.

06/11/2023

The startling support for Hamas among college students reveals a blind spot in curriculum that focuses on self-actualization and "internal truths," rather than on external universal truths.

06/11/2023

Voicing support for the violence of Hamas should be well outside the Overton window of a decent and free society, and should be met with social and professional consequences.

06/11/2023

Christians in American leadership ought to cling to their faith and to the Constitution.

03/11/2023

Some the Boss' greatest hits are about self-empowerment and self-reliance.