Many Counselors

“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 93 “Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established” (Prov. 15:22). Taking this together with other proverbs about business, we know that counsel is not simply a quantitative thing. In a multitude of counselors …

Mix and Match Identities

“When you say about a painting, a music video, or a pair of jeans, ‘I like this,’ you make some sort of judgment, but it’s not a judgment of quality. In Nobrow, judgments about which brand of jeans to wear are more like judgments of identity than quality. These judgments do not depend on knowledge …

Inescapable Blasphemy Laws

“Every culture has blasphemy laws. They are not always called that, but no society allows citizens to rail against the reigning deity. In our pluralistic times, these blasphemy laws are called ‘hate crimes’ legislation, among other euphemisms, but they are really religious protections to keep the reigning god, demos, from being blasphemed” (The Case for …