[March 17, 2024] In an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson, Abigail Shrier discussed the challenges of understanding evil and how evil masquerades as benevolence while manipulating trust, truth, and morality (see the full interview here). This is why we must study evil. The foremost challenge to figuring out evil is that we are given a false view, making… Read More »
[February 22, 2024] I’m a big fan of Dennis Prager. He is a common sense conservative radio talk show host and writer. I like him because he can give the average man and woman an easy but accurate description of the problems we have in America. Dennis Prager recently wrote an article in Townhall that caught my attention. … Read More »
[January 10, 2024] Evil leaders exist. While leadership means many things, it ultimately means getting people to accomplish a goal. Leaders come in a range of abilities and outcomes in performance – great, good, bad and, yes, evil. But one category, the evil leader, deserves special mention. Several years ago, I was presented with a DVD of recordings… Read More »
[June 26, 2023] Yesterday was the 73rd anniversary of the invasion of South Korea by their communist North Korea: June 25, 1950. And while that was many decades ago, this regime still demonstrates what Evil is like, if only we look into the abyss that is a nation. We call North Korea the Hermit Kingdom and for a… Read More »
[March 4, 2023] Think briefly about what Adolf Hitler should have done if he wanted to win the war. He would have enslaved the Jews and the Gypsies and worked them all to support his war effort toward victory. Of course, he wanted to liquidate them, but logic would say he would kill them only after he had… Read More »
[February 3, 2023] Is there a way to conduct your life in such a manner that the inherent susceptibility that characterizes your life is not just acceptable but desirable? That is the central question of existence. Tragedy With regard to tragedy, humans are vulnerable. And that is tragic. But if that is the price we pay for existence,… Read More »
[August 19, 2022] I heard an interesting talk the other day about the evil 1%. A college professor raged about the terrible things the one percent of our society is doing to harm the planet, harm the poor, and smile at pollution and poverty. Oh, how wrong he was. The top 1% in the West change. It’s not… Read More »
[January 22, 2022] A message for men. You have only two choices in life. Be a real man and walk with the Devil or be a wimp and live a life of hatred and misery. There is no in-between. American hero James Megellas of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment decided that walking with the Devil was not enough. … Read More »
[October 21, 2020] As the current COVID-19 pandemic slows and the Fall weather approaches, I am revisiting one of the greatest books of all time. In March of this year, I wrote a short review of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.1 It may have seemed like I was on kidding when I tried to sum up… Read More »
[July 31, 2020] Multiple times throughout my blog, I define leadership as the ability to get people to do things they would not ordinarily do and to do those things because they want to do them.1 That, however, is only half of what great leadership is about. Great leadership also means to know evil and face evil; only… Read More »