The American Epistemology Institute

Defending truth, reason, and the founding principles of Western civilization against ideological warfare and epistemic subversion.

Two Enlightenment Traditions: Scottish Realism vs. Contract Liberalism at the American Founding

Incompatible Anthropologies and the Path to Constitutional Coherence

Due ProcessDue Process

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Sep 07, 2025

Natural Law vs. Positive Law

The Role of Determinatio in American Legal Authority

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Sep 01, 2025

America's Metaphysical Axiom

One Human Nature and the Limits of Law

Aug 15, 2025

The Fog of Power

How Managerial Ambiguity Breeds Centralized Control

Jul 19, 2025

The Dangers of Metaphysical Dissection

How the Fragmentation of Being, Knowing, and Acting Unraveled the Foundations of the American Republic

Jun 27, 2025

ARES: A Metaphysical Standard for Law, Media, and Institutions

Restoring Metaphysical Grounding to Policy Evaluation

Jun 24, 2025

Rebuilding the Ramparts: An American Realist Response to Cognitive War

Initiating the Strategic Defense of America’s Metaphysical Foundations

Jun 22, 2025

The Enemy Within: The Architects of American Epistemicide

An Incomplete Ledger of Epistemic Subversives from the Founding to the Present

Jun 18, 2025

American Metaphysics: A Realist Lexicon

Retrieving America’s First Principles from Constructivist and Nominalist Decline

Jun 14, 2025

A Fixed Star or Shifting Sands: Reclaiming America's Realist Foundations

Why Aristotle, Aquinas, and Scottish Common Sense Realism, Not Locke's Nominalism, Defined Early American Political Philosophy

Jun 09, 2025

Reclaiming America’s Epistemic Spine: Why Realism Still Matters in 2025

Countering constructivist drift and reviving the realist foundations of the American public square.