Our Calendar Is Killing Us
The Crisis of the Common Era by John Heers, First Things Foundation What is time? It’s weird, right? If you think of time you inevitably start to think of aging and movement, a passing, a thing that is going “forward”…
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The Tyranny of Enlightened Freedom
Dostoevsky vs the World by John Heers, First Things Foundation Freedom is a hard thing. It can be confusing. It is essential to the understanding of both law and love. It presents itself as both a means to an end…
What Is Capitalism?
The Binding New World Ligament by John Heers, First Things Foundation Most people in the world accept the idea that capitalism is an economic system. For most people capitalism is a thing you use, a system in which you participate…
What Is A Vote?
Electing Our Identity by John Heers, First Things Foundation It’s an interesting thing when you think about it, voting. Modern American voting is a gesture made publicly that puts your name close to a person and the things they believe.…
What’s a Human Right, Anyway?
Or more accurately, what is a human? by John Heers, First Things Foundation What is a human right? To answer this question I propose that we investigate first things first. What is a human? From the Isle of Mann in…
Race: Science or Fiction?
by John Heers, First Things Foundation I’ve just returned home from a trip to the Georgian Republic. I went there to visit one of our First Things Foundation field workers. His name is Oswald, a great guy. During my trip…
Evolution: The Greatest Story Ever Told?
How evolution evolved from the minds of men… by John Heers, First Things Foundation In this edition of Heavy Things Done Lightly, the plan is to take a walk through history to discover something like antecedents. Where does Darwin’s evolutionary…
Light People, an Obelisk, and The GTI
Why Light People Marriage Must End In Gay Marriage by John Heers, of First Things Foundation First, before we dig into some heavy things, did you know that there is something called the Gay Travel Index? Here’s what this index does:…
Light People, Old World Marriage and Love
By John Heers, of First Things Foundation Alert: This month’s post is not about love as understood by people living on this side of the Victorian age. This article won’t make fans of the movie Titanic particularly happy, and few…
The Symbolism of the Supra
by Daniel Padrnos The Supra is essentially a banquet feast in which the tamada, the toast master, leads the table through various themes by speaking words in the form of poetic toasts. The nature of the toasts, the food, and…
Give Me Your Germs
by Kevin Cullen Entering into a country isn’t as straightforward as presenting a border agent with your passport (and these days—a PCR test) and traipsing through customs at the airport. That process, the physical act of crossing a border, is…