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Monday, April 14, 2014

Academic Justice

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A recent column by New York Times columnist Russ Douthat calls our attention to an article written last February by a Harvard senior for t...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

All Cultures Are Not Equal

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I was away most of the last couple of days so I thought I'd run a piece from the archives that dovetails with a couple of recent posts. ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Hirsi Ali and Liberal Core Values

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By now you've probably heard about the contretemps surrounding Brandeis University's decision, under President Frederick Lawrence, ...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

The 77% Factoid

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On Tuesday of this week President Obama delivered himself of a claim that he's made several times in the past. He asserted that, Today,...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Mozilla Offers a Glimpse of the Future

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Jonathan Tobin at Commentary has written a fine piece highlighting the hypocrisy of the left concerning the Brandon Eich firing at Mozilla....
Monday, April 7, 2014

Liberal Fascism

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In George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 words were used to mean precisely the opposite of what they do mean. "Peace is war, love i...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

Barbarisms

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Yesterday I reran a post on moral relativism that describes the horrific treatment of an Afghan girl named Bibi Aisha. The post first ran in...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Moral Paralysis

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In 2011 (12/5) I ran the following post under the title of The Fatuousness of Relativism . Having just talked about that topic recently in m...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Communicating a Love of Learning

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Elizabeth Corey has a wonderful essay in First Things that every teacher and aspiring teacher should read. She describes the crucial import...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

April Fools

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The President was ebullient in the White House Rose Garden yesterday, April 1st, as he announced that 7.1 million people have signed up for ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The Explanatory Gap

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The question often arises in discussions of the philosophy of mind how a materialist philosopher might respond to the problems posed to mate...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Not Just a Third World Problem

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We like to think that when people immigrate to the U.S. or European countries from the third world that they leave behind some of the more b...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Autism

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Pediatrician Russell Saunders at The Daily Beast discusses the very disturbing statistics on autism and asks the big question: What's c...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Why Naturalism Is Self-Refuting

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Over the last several decades a number of theistic philosophers have developed a powerful argument the conclusion of which is that naturalis...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Marriage Inequality

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Marriage inequality is much in the news today and our social commentators have a lot to say about it. Unfortunately, the kind of inequality ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Heaven Help Us

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When next you wonder why our government is dysfunctional and why the country is in the mess it's in just recall that we live in a nation...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Cosmic Inflation

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Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll at The Opinionator , a New York Times blog, gives us a very readable, very helpful explanation of the cos...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Interesting Questions

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If you're skeptical that the earth really is getting warmer, or if you're skeptical that whatever is happening with the climate is c...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

For Philosophy Students

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Here's a bit of philosophy humor courtesy of a friend named Dan:

Red Cells

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Geneticist Michael Denton is the author of two outstanding books, one ( Evolution: A Theory in Crisis ) on why Darwinism simply can't ex...