In the Old Calton cemetery in Edinburgh, David Hume’s mausoleum, a stout, cylindrical tower, dominates the surrounding tombstones. Contrasting with this imposing tomb, Hume insisted that it carry a ...

The Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three ...

The new issue of the New Inquiry is entitled “New World Order,” so naturally I read the whole thing the afternoon it hit my inbox. There’s an essay by Jesse Elias Spafford, who, with assists from Karl ...

It’s known as the Transcendental Argument for God (TAG). According to its proponents, justification for anything is impossible unless God exists. In the 18th century, an agnostic, if not atheistic, ...

How did one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived get so much wrong? David Hume certainly deserves his place in the philosophers’ pantheon, but when it comes to politics, he erred time and again ...

"Nothing can never be a cause" wrote David Hume as he examined the human conviction that events must have responsible antecedents. To modern man with a bellyache, pain in the head or tightness in the ...