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Friday, May 16, 2014

Twilight of Liberal Education

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My friend Jason passes along a fine piece by Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal on one of the ways the left is corrupting our cult...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Kinesin

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Your assignment for today is to watch this three minute video and then come up with a plausible explanation for how such a mechanism could h...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Do We Have Free Will?

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Florida State University philosophy professor Alfred Mele has an interesting piece on the topic of free will at Big Questions Online . He l...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

The Closing of the Liberal Mind

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When I was working my way through my undergraduate years universities were considered the one place you could go in our society where you co...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Life After Life

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Here's a question for you to mull over: Whatever your view of global ontology, i.e. the ultimate nature of reality, what would it do to ...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Goldilocks Planet

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Did you know that were there no moon, or if the moon we have were not the size it is, life would not exist on the earth? Did you know th...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Boko Haram

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The president is responding to the atrocity committed by the Islamist Boko Haram in Nigeria in what is probably the most appropriate fashion...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Poor Business Climate

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The liberal Brookings Institute has come out with a study that shows that in the last six years, for the first time in history, more busine...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

The Left and the Poor

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Caleb Rossiter is a bona fide leftist and, his ideology notwithstanding, an adamant global-warming skeptic. He's also perplexed at his ...
Monday, May 5, 2014

When Putin Looks at the U.S.

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Some wonder why Vladimir Putin is emboldened now, at this point in history, to seize Crimea from Ukraine and to threaten to seize the entire...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Accounting for Fine-Tuning

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A physicist at MIT named Alan Lightman, in the course of reviewing a book on science, religion and atheism, discusses the significance of c...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Judging People by Their Skin Color

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Perhaps no group of people in our society is quicker to judge people on the basis of their skin color and ethnicity than liberal academics. ...

Graduation Gift

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Are you pondering what to get a friend or family member who's graduating this spring? Are you planning on going to the beach and want to...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Joe Klein?!

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Joe Klein is a very liberal reporter from Time Magazine and even he is frustrated by the state of journalism at liberal television outlets l...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Racism, Real and Imagined

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The nation is all aflutter over Cliven Bundy, Donald Sterling, and American racism. I'd like to throw in my two cents: First, it's ...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Media Finally Faces Reality

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Michael Goodwin at The New York Post recounts the media's role in creating and propping up a failed presidency. After citing a few exam...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Punish the Rich

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The new tome by Thomas Picketty, a French economist, has created a flurry of excitement on the Left because, inter alia , Picketty endorses ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Craig-Carroll Debate

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A couple of weeks ago Christian philosopher William Lane Craig debated naturalist cosmologist Sean Carroll on the question whether theism or...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

White Privilege, White Guilt

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Dennis Prager opens a recent column at NRO with a provocative image: When Americans over the age of, let us say, 45 look at any of the icon...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Saletan's Modest Proposal

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A friend once asked why I opposed disclosing and publicizing political donations. I replied that such disclosures make targets of people for...