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Friday, January 16, 2015

Hottest Year Ever

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Last October I did a post in which I cited a statement to the effect that in some ways 2014 may turn out to be one of the coolest on record...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Once More on Fine-Tuning

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VP readers are doubtless aware that the topic of cosmic fine-tuning is something of a favorite interest of mine. Since several recent posts ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

More on Metaxas

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In an earlier post I mentioned an article in the Wall Street Journal by Eric Metaxas, and a couple of days later I mentioned in an update t...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Drawing Opposite Conclusions

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One of the frustrations of dialogue with those who hold opinions opposite our own is that so often we look at the same event and come to com...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Are We Charlie?

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David Brooks puts his finger on a peculiarity in some of the reaction in the United States to the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo staff. Bro...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Sky Dancers

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Sean Davis at The Federalist applies C.S. Lewis' description of men without chests in his Abolition of Man to that segment of our mode...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Feral Philosophy

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In a column for the New York Times' Opinionator Steve Neumann discusses the need for popular, as opposed to academic, philosophy. It...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

The Paris Massacre

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There has, of course, been a lot of commentary in the wake of the Paris mass murder of two police officers and ten employees of the magazine...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Galston on Americans' Religious Beliefs

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William Galston, currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, served in the Clinton administration and in the presidential campai...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Why Dads Matter

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One of the chief concerns of many Americans, including those who are socially liberal, is domestic violence and abuse. The irony of this con...
Monday, January 5, 2015

Who's Angry?

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I have to say that as one who considers himself moderately conservative, I cringe when listening to some of the major voices on talk radio. ...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

The Cosmological Argument

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One of the classical arguments for the existence of God is called the Cosmological argument. The name refers to the fact that the argument i...
Friday, January 2, 2015

Cosmic Fine-Tuning

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One of the most impressive arguments for the existence of an Intelligent Designer behind the universe is the extraordinary precision with wh...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

2014's List of Books

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In keeping with established precedent here's a list of books I completed in the year just past with a sentence or two of description: 1...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Superintelligence

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We've run a few posts here at VP lately which talk about reasons for believing that the conditions necessary to permit the emergence and...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

NYPD Work Stoppage

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It appears that the NYPD has decided that for whatever reasons it's not going to go out of its way to enforce minor infractions of the l...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Theory of Everything

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Cosmologist Stephen Hawking is perhaps the most famous living scientist, famous not only for his brilliance but also for his decades long ba...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Science and the Case for God

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Recently I've posted several pieces on Viewpoint on how many aspects of the solar system and the earth must be just as they are in order...
Friday, December 26, 2014

The Secular Life

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My friend Byron passed along a link to Susan Jacoby's discussion in the New York Times of a book by Phil Zuckerman titled Living the Se...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

For Christmas Eve

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Christmas is a magical time, but it's not the trappings of the secular world that make it magical - except maybe for very young children...