Jason Morgan

  Home Alone, the 1990 John Hughes blockbuster, has become a perennial Christmas favorite. Other American “Christmas movies” of post-modern vintage, for example Die Hard (1988) and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), apart from a surface-smattering of tinsel and... Read More →

Princeton professor Robert P. George is perhaps the most prominent philosopher working in the United States today. He is also, arguably, the most accomplished conservative scholar the country has produced in his generation. The director and founder of the James Madison Program in... Read More →

  Recently I attended a wedding in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The bride was the daughter of an old family friend. The beautiful young woman, radiant in her white wedding dress, used to be a curly-haired toddler with a Minnie Mouse doll always in her arms. The... Read More →

  Political violence is pretty much a daily feature of today’s news cycle. Assassins are guaranteed their fifteen minutes of fame. But something more than notoriety is happening in the wake of political violence today. Shoot at a pro-life speaker on a college campus, a group... Read More →

  I often commute to Tokyo for work. There are many train lines in Japan, and in the capital, they weave and tangle like cat’s-cradle strings. Some evenings, on the long ride home, my train ends up running parallel for a few moments with some other train on some other track... Read More →

  In his prime, professional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan was one of the most recognizable strongmen on the planet. His recent passing made national news even in Japan, where he was beloved by generations of fans. As a world-famous muscle-flexer and, in his last year,... Read More →

  The name Hans Vaihinger is virtually unknown today, but we Americans very much live in his world. Vaihinger, a German philosopher, created a minor sensation more than a century ago with the publication in 1911 of The Philosophy of ‘As If’ (the English translation, The... Read More →

  On the morning of Saturday, May 17, a bomb went off outside the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. The bomber, a twenty-five-year-old man named Guy Edward Bartkus, was killed in the blast. Four other people were injured. News... Read More →

  Prolifers care about babies in the womb, of course. That’s part of what being pro-life is all about. But there’s something you notice when you spend time in the pro-life movement: Pro-life people are good at what comes after birth, too. So many of the prolifers I know are... Read More →

  There are two ways in which to think about humanity: as unique human persons or as aggregate masses. When we humans start to speak of groups of people, it almost always leads to dismissing each group member’s humanity, even if only slightly. “Fans of that football team... Read More →