To succumb to pressure to suppress or disguise his true beliefs would have been, for Spinoza, a concession equivalent to ...

“Lith-o-pe-di-on a retained fetus, usually extrauterine, that has become calcified” ...

“Doom is there staring, everywhere/I go, like a brazen coyote/dead center of the road/half-starved so it doesn’t care anymore ...

He was also the Great Deregulator.” T here is little we can say about former President Jimmy Carter—who will lie in state in ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

Jonathan Church is a contributing editor at Merion West. He is a government economist with a background in energy economics and inflation measurement. In addition to authoring several essays, he has ...

“Of course, the question of whether healthcare should be socialized is only a small piece of my general disagreement with [Walter] Block on political economy. Still, it is a vivid enough example to ...

“Social media and online articles about these incidents boast ten or even 20 comments praising the vigilante for each one condemning the act of violence.” Grover’s murder is not the first registrant ...