What’s Wrong with the World

Steve Burton

Steve Burton received his B.A. in Philosophy from Berkeley in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Michigan in 1992. He specialized in aesthetics - especially the aesthetics of music. He taught for a year at the University of Indiana, and for three years at the University of Chicago, and, later, for a couple of years, interned in the Bio-ethics Department at the National Institutes of Health.

But he never learned to keep his conservative/libertarian trap shut.

He now lives near Kansas City, Missouri, where he does his best to look after his aged mother.

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Articles

• An Apology, January 5, 2012
• The Three Best Buys in Naples, January 2, 2012
• Blackout, December 25, 2011
• Steyn on our Decline, December 20, 2011
• The Two Best Buys in Rome, December 17, 2011
• Stoicism!, December 10, 2011
• Fourth Premise, December 8, 2011
• Third Premise, December 6, 2011
• Second Premise, December 5, 2011
• First Premise, December 4, 2011
• The Barrenness of Anti-Darwinism, November 29, 2011
• Occupy Wall Street, October 16, 2011
• "I am a girl", October 12, 2011
• Basta!, September 30, 2011
• There's Life in the Old Girl Yet - II, August 22, 2011
• There's Life in the Old Girl Yet - I, August 22, 2011
• On a More Serious Note, August 18, 2011
• Florence and Rome, August 18, 2011
• The Cultural Contradictions of Multiculturalism, July 15, 2011
• Not Getting WeinerGate, June 7, 2011
• Yet I Cannot Turn Away, May 26, 2011
• Rarely, rarely comest thou, Spirit of Delight!, May 24, 2011
• Andres Serrano, Martyr, April 20, 2011
• What the...???, April 13, 2011
• Elizabeth Taylor, R.I.P., March 24, 2011
• Speaking of Illegal Immigration..., March 21, 2011
• Guest Post: The Scandal No One in the American Church is Talking About, March 20, 2011
• Insert Foot, March 14, 2011
• Mere Libertarianism, March 12, 2011
• Moderate Materialism, February 16, 2011
• They Have Learned Nothing, and Forgotten Everything, February 11, 2011
• Hoist on his own Petard, February 9, 2011
• Egypt Open Thread, February 3, 2011
• Team America: World Police, February 2, 2011
• The Vanguard of the Revolution, February 1, 2011
• One Can Never Be PC Enough, January 31, 2011
• For Rob G., January 28, 2011
• "Jews...more or less invented modernity...", January 21, 2011
• The Monstrous Regimen, January 18, 2011
• Ed Feser's Aquinas, December 10, 2010
• Study Questions - Aquinas & Nietzsche, November 26, 2010
• The Transparent Fraud, November 21, 2010
• "I am white, after all...", November 6, 2010
• La Stupenda, R.I.P., October 12, 2010
• A Golden Oldie, Just for Al..., October 12, 2010
• Music Video of the Month, October 8, 2010
• Inglorious Bastards, September 22, 2010
• A Crack in the Wall, September 5, 2010
• Not Guilty, September 4, 2010
• I Wish I Couldn't Believe This, September 3, 2010
• Fellow Travelling, September 2, 2010
• Whither Christianity?, August 30, 2010
• Apropos of Hiroshima..., August 26, 2010
• Nixon Goes to China, July 23, 2010
• The Great "Diversity" Fraud, July 18, 2010
• A Legend for Our Day and Age, July 9, 2010
• MCMYCL: 1955: I Bought Me a Cat, July 4, 2010
• How Do You Like It, White Boy?, June 15, 2010
• Rough Justice, June 6, 2010
• Lunatics In Charge, May 19, 2010
• MCMYCL - 1939 (revised & updated), May 6, 2010
• E pur si muove!, April 30, 2010
• Heroes of Suffering vs. Heroes of Accomplishment, April 26, 2010
• MCMYCL*: 1977, April 23, 2010
• Modern Concert Music You Can Love: 1944, April 19, 2010
• Cultural Appropriation, April 15, 2010
• The Great Dispossession, April 10, 2010
• "The Irony of Libertarianism..., April 10, 2010
• "We don't anticipate that...", April 1, 2010
• This is how They see Us, March 31, 2010
• The Gordian Knot Untied, March 28, 2010
• The Big "Hate Crimes" Lie, March 25, 2010
• So much...., March 21, 2010
• If you think we should stay in Afghanistan..., March 17, 2010
• Everything's Up to Date in Kansas City!, March 14, 2010
• What's Wrong With Distributism, March 12, 2010
• The. End., March 9, 2010
• Unz Again, March 8, 2010
• Reply to Unz, March 2, 2010
• Unzism Refuted, February 22, 2010
• "They would drain the blood from an innocent child..., February 4, 2010
• Sebastian Saw the Face of God, January 10, 2010
• Imagine..., January 8, 2010
• Weak Tea, January 8, 2010
• The Crucible, December 30, 2009
• Dona nobis pacem, December 26, 2009
• Evolution & Morality: Explanation vs. Justification, December 23, 2009
• Consequentialism vs. Deontology, December 9, 2009
• Muscular Christianity, cont.d, November 30, 2009
• Yoof-ful High Spirits, November 25, 2009
• Monckton, on Climategate..., November 23, 2009
• "Islam will have to be the solution", November 11, 2009
• Sage Advice, November 10, 2009
• Muscular Christianity, November 8, 2009
• Evolution & Ideology, October 28, 2009
• Some Video Addenda..., October 24, 2009
• Matthew Roberts on Pagans and Christians, October 22, 2009
• Christianity & Liberalism, October 19, 2009
• The American Conservative, October 17, 2009
• Speaking of Grünewald..., October 15, 2009
• Libertarianism & Philistinism, October 15, 2009
• È tardi!...the Lisbon Traviata: Scena Ultima?, October 11, 2009
• The Bank of America Experience, July 31, 2009
• Per Capita Public* Health Care Spending..., July 24, 2009
• Business is Business..., July 24, 2009
• Hate Crime? What hate crime?, July 9, 2009
• Briefly noted..., July 3, 2009
• In case anybody's feeling smug..., July 2, 2009
• Sound Familiar?, June 26, 2009
• There's a structural problem..., June 24, 2009
• This Must Not Be Lost..., June 20, 2009
• Will Wonders Never Cease?, June 20, 2009
• I can't stay mad at Lawrence Auster for long..., June 19, 2009
• UKIP, June 18, 2009
• Sigh..., June 17, 2009
• The Trouble with Larry, June 13, 2009
• The BNP: Don't be Fooled, June 9, 2009
• Who'd a thunk it?, May 31, 2009
• Grin & Bear It, May 29, 2009
• Welcome to the World, John Henry!, May 24, 2009
• Crazy Days..., May 9, 2009
• Thomas More: Then & Now, May 6, 2009
• Who Needs Orwell..., May 3, 2009
• A Darwinian Fable: Chapter 2, April 24, 2009
• A Darwinian Fable: Chapter 1, April 19, 2009
• Whoah! "Spengler"..., April 18, 2009
• The Left vs. Free Speech, April 17, 2009
• My First YouTube Video Response! (Ed Feser, take note!), April 6, 2009
• This video is arguably blasphemous..., March 26, 2009
• Our Great-grandfathers... (updated), March 17, 2009
• Cato Bound, March 15, 2009
• Prague Spring..., March 9, 2009
• Hungary 1956, March 5, 2009
• Berlin 1953, February 20, 2009
• How to fix the schools, February 19, 2009
• In the Beginning..., February 15, 2009
• NOT The Onion:, February 8, 2009
• We Have All This to Look Forward To..., February 5, 2009
• Not Black Enough, February 3, 2009
• A Blast From the Past, January 30, 2009
• My Main (Mad-)Man Mencius Moldbug on a Roll, January 25, 2009
• Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, January 18, 2009
• Me so Clueless, January 17, 2009
• Too Late, January 13, 2009
• "The End of White America?" (enough, already!), January 12, 2009
• "The End of White America?" (continued), January 9, 2009
• It is the Dawning of the Age of...of...of..., January 8, 2009
• Just Saying..., January 4, 2009
• Die, Zeitgeist, November 21, 2008
• Barack Obama, God-King, November 9, 2008
• Humiliating Manuel, November 5, 2008
• Another One..., October 9, 2008
• It's hard to believe..., October 8, 2008
• David Frum..., September 1, 2008
• The weirdest and scariest thing..., September 1, 2008
• Daniel Larison on Solzhenitsyn, August 5, 2008
• The greatest man of the last century..., August 3, 2008
• "I have become a symbol...", July 30, 2008
• They Get You Coming..., July 24, 2008
• Chorus Mysticus, July 21, 2008
• "Stuff White People Like", June 29, 2008
• The Dark Triad, June 20, 2008
• The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, June 17, 2008
• I Did Not Know That, June 15, 2008
• Nationalism and Universalism Again, June 15, 2008
• Joe meets Mike, June 10, 2008
• Anti-anticommunism, June 2, 2008
• Irena Sendlerowa, R.I.P., May 16, 2008
• The AP Gets a Thrill Going Up Its Leg, May 10, 2008
• Declinist Thoughts, May 8, 2008
• Why I'm not Needed, May 6, 2008
• The Truth about Tuskegee, April 30, 2008
• Why China will Inherit the Earth, April 27, 2008
• Beware the Believers!, April 3, 2008
• "Universalism" vs. "Chauvinism" Part II, February 14, 2008
• "Universalism" vs. "Chauvinism" Part I, February 12, 2008
• Is the Academy Still a Bastion of White Gentile Male Supremacy?, February 8, 2008
• Homeschooling Heads Up, January 19, 2008
• The Obama Exception, January 17, 2008
• What Passing Bells..., January 12, 2008
• He Who Pays the Piper, January 11, 2008
• Cultural Contradictions of Liberalism, Part 123,456,789, December 10, 2007
• Black/White Income Equality: a bleg:, December 4, 2007
• The Grave & Gathering Danger of White Racism, November 30, 2007
• A Technical Query, November 28, 2007
• Paradigm Shift Alert, November 19, 2007
• Reply to Wilkinson, October 5, 2007
• Larison vs Wilkinson, October 1, 2007
• Libertarianism Ain't What it Used to Be, September 6, 2007
• Middle Class Virtue, cont.d, August 28, 2007
• Derbyshire on Spencer, August 22, 2007
• The Rise and Fall of Middle-Class Virtue, August 12, 2007
• Affirmative Action for Immigrants?, June 13, 2007
• The Wave of No Future, May 4, 2007