Gary C. Gibson - Essays

The United States has traditionally been a people avoiding state of the art political philosophy research and philosophy in general with the...

About 25,000 years ago the Ice Age began ending, and by 15,000 years ago the ancient sea level about 120 meters lower than at present began ...

An aristocracy is rule by the elite. They rule because they have the power to, and of course they aren't elected. The aristocrats exploi...

Financial leadership by politicians today is rather important to many of us poor, independent voters who care about economic malfeasance in ...

One could use Toynbee's criteria of civilization and conclude that the Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations were successful rather than fa...

Federal hate speech was a good present for the corporate Internet world permitting the deletion of non-conformist language whenever its usef...

from Article 1 Section Two- " Clause 3: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be in...

Political contentiousness and interpretation of symbolic meanings never end in the litigious world of Washington D.C. So many litigation cou...

Philosophical thought may be about finding meaning or whatever else is 'wise'. Wisdom may be simplicity or awareness of the truth wi...

That the world’s objects change and decay ordinarily, and that the sky and seasons appear to change obviously provided an observation opport...

I wanted to mention Plotinus' neo-Platonism and his exposition of Platonism in The Enneads. Socrates at least believed in God, and the c...

This time each year President Obama urges tax cuts saving the GOP the trouble of exerting themselves much. Like maggots eating away the dead...

Eight Officers, non-commissioned officers and specialists in Afghanistan have been suspended in connection with the death of Fort Wainwrigh...

American states with ocean coastlines have some input into Federal management of it's lands on those areas. I would guess that includes ...

The Washington Lintel’s Best-loved reporter interviewed a former spook that traveled extensively in the entourage of dictator heir-apparent ...

The question of why does anything exist is perhaps the most profound question. Not the quantum mechanics of an evident universe-but anything...

When William F. Buckley Jr. began his conservative movement in college during an era of college liberalism the evil empire-an authoritarian ...

It's a good view of the conclusion of a very expensive, paradoxical military action's final phase. With a congressional inability to...

Mass (M) entirely converted into energy equals light moving away from itself at it's own speed. Hence E=mc2 http://www.worsleyschool.n...

The Sun Dance is an ancient first people's religious ceremony of North America that seems to have parallel features with Darwinian evolu...