My favorite blogger, Ike Pigott, is back online with Occam’s RazR, a personal journal dedicated to making complicated things simpler. The title is borrowed from William of Occam, a medieval English friar who advanced the principle that, when given two equally valid explanations for a phenomenon, one should embrace the less complicated formulation.
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15Janby Drew in Truth and Repose.
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09Janby Drew in Truth and Repose.
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French nobleman who visited America in the 1830s. Because he was an outsider looking in, Tocqueville was able to perceive how America could be so generous with freedom: Christianity restrained the American people from abusing their freedoms and disciplined them to use them wisely. “Despotism,” he said, “may be able to do without faith, but freedom cannot” (quoted in Jerry Sittser, The Will of God as a Way of Life, p. 58).