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Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Gang of 47

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Last week 47 Republican senators signed a brief letter to Iran's regime informing them that any deal they sign with the administration r...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Time

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The nature of time has been described as perhaps the universe's most baffling mystery. Immanuel Kant thought that time was a part of our...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Some Hatred Is Okay, Some Isn't

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The news out of Oklahoma last weekend is pretty ugly. A bunch of frat boys at Oklahoma University filmed themselves engaging in dehumaniz...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Benjamin Libet on Free Will and Determinism

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This post is from the archive but is relevant to a topic we're discussing, or soon will be discussing, in class: Students of psychology...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

The Crusades

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In the wake of President Obama's infelicitous comments during the National Prayer Breakfast tacitly implicating Christianity in atrociti...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Well, That's a Relief

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Earlier today I posted an excerpt from an Israeli web site that specializes in defense matters. The site raised the specter of a nuclear bom...

What's Israel Afraid of?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before a joint session of Congress last Tuesday to explain why any deal with Iran that lets ...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Miracles and Multiverses

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Naturalism is the view that physical nature is all there is. It holds that there's no non-physical reality, no supernatural. Naturalists...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Premoderns and Postmoderns (Pt. III)

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This is the third in the series of reflections on Joseph Bottum's essay titled Christians and Postmoderns . See here and here for the ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Premoderns and Postmoderns (Pt. II)

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I'd like to continue our look at the First Things essay (Christians and Postmoderns) by Joseph Bottum that I began Saturday . Bottu...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Campus Hatred

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One of the most troubling developments on modern American campuses has been the movement away from intelligent dialogue on matters of differ...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Premoderns and Postmoderns (Pt. I)

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There are in the West three basic ways to look at the world, three worldviews which serve as lenses through which we interpret the experienc...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Head Transplant

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New Scientist has an article about an Italian surgeon, Sergio Canavero, who fully anticipates doing head transplants within a few years. As...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Litmus Tests

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A writer at The New Yorker by the name of Adam Gopnik believes that a presidential aspirant's views on evolution should be a litmus tes...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Fundamental Reality

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This is a rerun of a post I wrote on May, 31st of last year. I'm reposting it since it's relevant to some topics my students and I h...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The Sizes of Things

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Here's a fun interactive site that you won't be able to stop playing with. By moving the scroll bar you can zoom in or out to see h...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Spineless

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It is perhaps indicative of the sad state to which our news media has sunk that they took to their fainting couches when the comments by fo...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Adios, Infinity

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MIT physics professor John Brockman advances a surprising, perhaps even heretical, thesis: The idea of infinity should be retired from phys...
Friday, February 20, 2015

No Answer

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This segment of Bill O'Reilly's show last night illustrates why pacifism seems irrelevant to a lot of people. O'Reilly had as gu...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Going the Full Jessup

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is a viable candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. Because he's a successful con...