It’s not about self-improvement. It’s about being a good member of society. By Nancy Sherman It’s astonishing how relentlessly Western philosophy has strained to prove we are not squirrels. By Crispin ...

Throughout American history, there have been visionaries from all walks of life who have understood that something isn’t quite right, and that it is possible to mount a serious critique of the ...

Philosophy professor Crispin Sartwell this week wrote an Op-ed for the New York Times asking if Jelly Roll could heal the “broken soul of America.” The writer, a recovering addict, has buried a ...

Gay organizations and women's groups have protested Eminem's four Grammy nominations, as well they might. The chorus of the first song on The Marshall Mathers LP goes like this: "Bitch ...

I read Crispin Sartwell’s erudite exposition of how labels drive political narratives (“The Curse of ‘Denial,’” op-ed, Jan. 13), and I thought, boy, those leftists are terrible. Then, I read Karl Rove ...

Mr. Sartwell is an associate professor of philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. Here we are at the end of another year, and as humans are wont to do around this time, I’ve been reflecting.

Earlier this summer, former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and former Republican Governor Christine Todd Whitman (N.J.) announced the creation of a new political party. Vaguely defined ...

Contemporary political discourse is populated by elected officials falsely claiming to oppose censorship. Former Sen. Mike Gravel, who died Sunday at age 91, was the real deal. As a member of the U.S.

Crispin Sartwell implies that schools aren’t places of learning because they provide mental-health support (“Do Psychologists Cause ‘Mental Illness’?,” op-ed, May 21). To the contrary, supporting ...

I appreciate Prof. Crispin Sartwell’s clever and correct comparison of “woke” corporations emulating the Chinese Communist Party (“‘Woke’ Corporations Use the Chinese Model,” op-ed, April 27). However ...

Wonder Land: More than 100 corporation leaders have done a Davos by laptop to vilify Republicans and validate their progressive credentials. Image: Getty Images/iStock Photo The opposition of market ...