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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Deplorables

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What was most dismaying about Hillary Clinton's recent "Basket of Deplorables" faux pas was not that she said that there are ...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Fire

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It's easy to take things for granted as we go through our everyday lives, but when we stop and think about some of those things it can j...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

How the West Blessed the World

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I find myself often referring in conversation with friends to Rodney Stark's excellent book titled How the West Won . Like all his books...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Receding Tide

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Pat Buchanan suggests that the Clinton campaign is losing momentum and a lot of people, including people in her campaign , are puzzled as t...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Metaphysical Freeloader

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Note: This post ran on VP three years ago, but, given what my students and I are talking about in class, I thought it'd be helpful to ru...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Atheism's Moral Dilemma

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Lincoln Mullen has a review in Books and Culture of Peter Watson's The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of G...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Will Obama Voters Go for Hillary?

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Among the many things that must be worrying the Clinton campaign team nowadays - in addition to her health concerns, a possible embarrassing...
Monday, September 5, 2016

The Unemployment Rate Is Misleading

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Since it's Labor Day it's appropriate to post something about jobs and unemployment. Politicians like to boast when the unemployme...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

Paying Their Fair Share

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One thing we're almost guaranteed to hear between now and the election in November, and even afterward, is that in this country the rich...
Friday, September 2, 2016

Leaving Science Behind

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An article by Kirk Dunston at Evolution News and Views illustrates the blurry line that's often separates science and metaphysics. Duns...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Cosmic Voyage

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Have you ever wondered how big the universe is or how small the smallest things are? Morgan Freeman takes us on a journey in this an eight a...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Poverty and Bad Decisions

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An interesting piece by Emily Badger at CityLab cites research that suggests that, contrary to common opinion, poor people are not poor bec...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Reasons for Unbelief

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A recent Pew survey found that the number of Americans who don't believe in God or who are unaffiliated with any religion is continuing...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Why Study Philosophy?

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In the course of my teaching I sometimes encourage students to consider an undergraduate philosophy major or minor because I believe that a ...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Unkillable Myth

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William and Mary anthropologist Barbara King recently reviewed a new book by Alistair McGrath titled The Big Question: Why We Can't Sto...
Friday, August 26, 2016

A Couple of Puzzlements

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For as long as I can remember the left has been reminding us of the plight of the black underclass in America. Indeed, liberals may be said ...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Fortuitous Flukes

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Nobel Prize winning biologist Francis Crick once said that "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see (in their micros...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Vetting Immigrants (Pt. II)

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Yesterday I called attention to a column in NRO by former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy who argued that there's no constitutional ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Vetting Immigrants (Pt. I)

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Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has written a powerful essay in National Review Online on the idea of vetting Muslim immigrants t...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Can't Be Bothered

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President Obama has been the recipient of a lot of criticism lately for not visiting Louisiana after the worst flooding since Hurricane Katr...