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The Secret of Love: What we’ve always known but are only beginning to understand
On Valentine’s Day, let’s appreciate that the rising, if still imperfect, acceptance of women’s equality makes the possibility of authentic love between men and women widely possible for the first time in history.
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Carter Gets Smarter: Jimmy Carter & the Equality of Women
Historians have rated Jimmy Carter as a rather middle-of-the-pack president. But, he came along at a pivotal moment for the women’s rights movement. These are some thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s evolution on the issue.
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Four Men Who Should Have Known Better: Concluding Reflections
Male Pattern Blindness is about otherwise brilliant men who had philosophical views and acquaintances that should have helped them see women’s equality, but didn’t.
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Four Men Who Should Have Known Better:
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer is widely revered as an anti-Nazi martyr and a leading theologian of ethics. Alas, his advocacy of seeing ethics from the perspective of the oppressed did not help him see the equality of women.
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Four Men Who Should Have Known Better:
Alfred MarshallThe economist Alfred Marshall is the third of my four profiles of men who by dint of smarts and circumstances should have appreciated the equality of women, but didn’t.
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Four Men Who Should Have Known Better:
Dr. Charles MeigsDr. Charles Meigs was a prominent practitioner of midwifery and misogyny. His position of one of the 19th century’s leading experts on obstetrics and women’s health should have helped him appreciate the equality of women, but it didn’t.
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Four Men Who Should Have Known Better: Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer is probably the most explicit and egregious misogynist in the western philosophical tradition. This is despite his knowing several exceptional women and advancing a moral philosophy that emphasized empathy. He is, therefore, a great example of Male Pattern Blindness.
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Male Pattern Blindness
Introducing profiles of four prominent 19th-20th century men who by dint of outlook and circumstance should have grasped the equality of women, but didn’t.
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Grievance as Gospel
Thoughts on the power of grievance politics.
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Gratitude & Purpose
Reflections on Galen Guengerich’s reflections on gratitude.
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An Old Mill Mystery
John Stuart Mill is appropriately lauded as one of the few of our male Great Philosophers who recognized the equality of women. How did he come to this breakthrough?
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The Idea
My new project is a book making the argument that women’s equality is the most important idea in all human history.
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Changed Priorities Ahead
My new project represents a change in focus, while drawing on my long-term background and interests in philosophy and theology.
