Anthony J. DeBlasi

My best friend, a retired math teacher, once asked: If there were no one around, would the theorems of mathematics still exist?It is the sort of metaphysical question that he and I like to kick around: nothing simple, no topic too big. I…

The following is not intended to criticize anyone truly liberal or who keeps an open mind. It is aimed at those who pretend to be liberal but are in fact allies of the Left, which makes them Marxists. Quotation marks on the word “liberal”…

The current crop of leftists were accurately described over fifty years ago in a dictionary of philosophy, no less. Under “Individualism,” Oswald von Nell-Breuning, a contributor to the Philosophical Dictionary of Walter Brugger/Kenneth…

In 1953, I was 30 miles from Nagasaki, in the port city of Sasebo, Japan, on the way to Korea during the war there to keep communism from trampling every corner of Asia.I did not know it at the time, but Nagasaki, the second city to be…

The “mindset” of those I knew in the years of my youth, when there were no computers and smartphones, may be gleaned from conversations we had in those “simpler” days. The moral clarity that prevailed in America before 1960 must be kept in…

The idea that the nature of the world can be grasped in its fullness with a purely rational method, as many a physicist and scientist believes, always makes me wonder how those who seriously take this as fact are not in some way deluding…

This is a true story.It was reduced in length to a “thumbnail size” some time ago as an exercise in brevity. Such extreme reduction of a story without blurring its essential character was, I think, good practice in limiting my usual writing…

A number of celebrities and VIPs of the radical left, including one who betrayed our Vietnam veterans while they were putting their lives on the line for this country, have been warning that if President Trump returns to office, life in…

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,The courage to change the things I can,And the wisdom to know the difference.– Reinhold Niebuhr Scrawled upon a college blackboard before the start of class, back around 1950,…

“The Internet is a gift from God,” said my brother once, “that will save mankind from tyranny and injustice. The people now have a power to reckon with.”I think my wise old brother had forgotten that those in power control the means of mass…