Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground is a novel in two parts, and this video is an introduction to those parts–the first part concerns how modern science undermines morality; the second how it undermines human manners.
A Time to Repeal and Replace
Few public intellectuals are more committed to healing our nation’s wounds than Yuval Levin. A patriot with a deep sense of public responsibility and humility, he seeks a knife-edged path that might lead us out of our earthquake partisan conditions. His A Time to Build is an attempt to find common ground between America’s Left and Right. […]
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. “The Ascent” and “Or Corruption?” from Book 4
These first two chapters from the part “The Soul and the Barbed Wire” concern the question of whether human nature can be eliminated or not. The ideological view of the world is that human nature can be eliminated and a new “nature” created through acts of the will in line with ideological projects. Some inmate […]