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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Is Multiverse Theory Scientific

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In their book The Grand Design Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow start off declaring that philosophy is dead and then for some reason pr...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

A Mini-Ice Age

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Having scared the wits out of us for twenty years with dire predictions of global warming, rising sea levels, desertification, wildlife exti...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Petty Tyrants

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You may recall the frightening - and sickening - abuse of power exercised by Wisconsin prosecutor John Chisolm against supporters of Wiscons...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

All for Show

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Jonah Goldberg is, in my opinion, one of the most entertaining political writers on the current scene. He's very bright and witty, has a...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Information Degradation

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One reason for the growing persuasiveness of arguments for an intelligent architect behind the structure of the universe and of life is that...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

So Is Trump Wrong?

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Set aside for the moment your personal feelings about Donald Trump and/or the party whose nomination for the presidency he seeks. Set aside ...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Why Greece Is in Trouble

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Jim Geraghty explains at NRO one reason why Greece is in default and why so many in the Eurozone have very little sympathy for their plight...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Culture War 4.0

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There's an excellent essay at The Federalist on the current state of the struggle on the part of progressives to "fundamentally tr...
Monday, July 6, 2015

About Time

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Augustine wrote in his Confessions that as long as no one asked him, he knew perfectly well what time is, but as soon as someone asked him ...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

America the Beautiful

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Here's the Hillsdale College Choir to help make your Fourth of July more meaningful. Given the events in Washington of the last fortnigh...

Dred Scott Redux

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Yesterday's post focussed on Rod Dreher's Benedict Option for conservative Christians whom Dreher, in the wake of the Obergefell dec...
Friday, July 3, 2015

The Benedict Option

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The Obergefell ruling by a 5-4 Supreme Court has a lot of conservatives, particularly Christian conservatives, wondering what can be done t...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Plan B

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Politico has an interesting piece on the military options available should the nuclear talks with Iran break down completely. You'll ha...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Panic Mode

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Kevin Williamson unloads both barrels (can I still say that?) at progressivism and its Democratic party epigones in a scathing but on-the-ma...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Call for a New New Atheism

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Patrick O'Connor is an atheist who offers a critique of current iterations of atheism at The Business Insider . The crux of his essay is...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Follow-up to Friday's Post

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A friend and I have had some back and forth over Friday's post ( Lukewarmism ) on the article by Matt Ridley which critiques attempts to...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Marketplace of Ideas

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When it comes to hypocrisy and muddled reasoning it's often hard to top the progressive left. Consider John Micek, op-ed editor of the P...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Lukewarmism

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Matt Ridley, zoologist, science journalist, member of the British House of Lords has a brilliant piece at The Quadrant Online in which he d...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Simply Inexplicable

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The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 in King v. Burwell that when the Affordable Care Act says plainly that people are eligible for federal heal...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Philosophy: What's the Use?

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Notre Dame philosopher Gary Gutting addresses a question in the New York Times section called The Stone that a lot of students ask: What...