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Friday, August 19, 2016

PC Is Harming Science

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Alex Berezow at American Council on Science and Health cites a paper by Nathan Cofnas in the journal Foundations of Science in which Cofnas...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Doomed?

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This column will either dishearten you or elate you depending upon your ideological preferences. In my opinion it's very sad because it...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

A Glossary

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On Monday I suggested that it might be useful to post a glossary of terms frequently encountered in a discussion of the issue of the ultima...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Naturalism and Incoherence

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I was listening to a podcast discussion yesterday between two philosophers, one an atheist and one a theist, on the topic of whether or not ...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Retiring Theistic Evolution

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John Farrell, writing at Forbes , quotes a number of Catholic scientists who embrace evolution but who wish to see the term " theistic ...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

History Lessons

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I just returned form a wonderful tour of Germany that emphasized sites made famous by Martin Luther's contretemps with the Catholic chur...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Liberals and Violence

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What is it about liberals and violence? There's been a myth circulating in our society for as long as I can remember that goes somethi...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Genesis of Islamic Terrorism

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We live in a time when stories of terrorist attacks by Islamic fanatics monopolize our daily news, a fact which prompts question like, where...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Who Are the Racists?

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The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals recently struck down a North Carolina law that would have required voters to present an identification at t...
Monday, August 8, 2016

Good Without God

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Jerry A. Coyne is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at The University of Chicago. He's also a prominent atheist who...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

The Laffer Curve

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Sometimes we hear acquaintances or political commentators on television scoff at the notion that decreasing taxes can actually increase the ...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Millenials and Capitalism

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A poll taken last spring reveals that a majority of young people do not support capitalism, according to a story in the Washington Post, an...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

True But Irrelevant

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Media talking heads, intent on mocking Trump, point out that curtailing Muslim immigration wouldn't have prevented the Orlando massacre ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Thought Experiments

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A thought experiment is a mental exercise in which the thinker constructs a scenario that perhaps does not or could not actually exist in th...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Presuppositions Shape Politics

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Yesterday I posted a primer on distinguishing some of the ideological differences between left and right. That post limned those distinction...
Monday, August 1, 2016

Taxonomy of Political Ideology

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This is an updated version of a post I originally wrote last February. With political campaigns getting into high gear for November I though...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Did the Russians Do It?

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The Democratic National Committee and others have blamed the Russians for the hack of their embarrassing emails which Wikileaks released jus...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Three Questions for Moderate Muslims

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A story in The Guardian relates how the family of Adel Kermiche, the young man who recently slit the throat of a French priest who was sayi...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Phony Hysteria and Dumb Lyrics

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Yesterday's Democratic Convention performances were overshadowed by news that Donald Trump had committed treason, or at least you might ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Political Correctness

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Political Correctness is the rather clumsy appellation given to the idea that certain political or social sentiments or actions are necessar...