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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Peas in a Pod

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Harvey Weinstein's fall from power and prominence has been fascinating to behold. Once a highly feted movie producer and mega-donor to l...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Shoddy Journalism

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A brief article at the Daily Mail on how President Trump is undoing what his predecessor tried to accomplish over his eight year tenure ill...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Theories of Time

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The class discussion recently turned to questions concerning the nature of time and a student dug out this post from 3/7/2014. Since it addr...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Life Does Not Begin at Conception

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An article at The Federalist on the recently released U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 2018-2022 Plan contains and perpe...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Crossing a Line

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I'm not one who takes every word that falls from the president's lips seriously. Much of what he says is bluster, much else is a way...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Basic Epistemology

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Professor Laurence A. Moran, a biochemist at the University of Toronto and evangelistic atheist, recently found himself in conversation with...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

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Physicist Sir James Jeans, contemplating the fact that the universe seems so astonishingly conformable to mathematics, once remarked that Go...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Columbus Day

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Yesterday was Columbus Day here in the U.S. and the protests and disdain expressed by some for the holiday made me think of a book I read s...
Monday, October 9, 2017

Running the Film Backwards

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A student recently dug this old post out of the archive and I thought I'd re-post it: There is a universally accepted principle of tho...
Saturday, October 7, 2017

Strange How Things Sometimes Work Out

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Sometimes things in life work out in ways completely unforeseen and unforeseeable. Just when it seems nothing good can come of one's lif...
Friday, October 6, 2017

Gun Deaths

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It's easy to think that in the wake of Las Vegas and other episodes like it that the country is rife with firearm-facilitated murders. I...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Stephen Paddock and Richard Dawkins

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I know that few thoughtful people take Lena Dunham seriously, but still.... Dunham tweeted yesterday that the Las Vegas massacre Monday nig...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Free Speech Is on the Ropes

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A recent study by YouGov polled adults across the nation on their views of free speech. The results are both instructive and troubling. F...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Naturalism and Evil

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The horror in Las Vegas late Monday night was yet another reminder of how deep lies the depravity in the human psyche. That a man could for ...
Monday, October 2, 2017

Islamism

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The biggest threat to the safety and freedom of those living in the West today is an extreme form of Islam called Islamism . The ambition of...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Hugh Hefner (1926-2017)

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Perhaps no single individual has done more in his lifetime to destroy the moral fabric of a nation, certainly not this nation, than has Hugh...
Friday, September 29, 2017

The Threat from the Left

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John Sexton at HotAir has a story on Antifa which is alarming for a couple of reasons. First, is the level of violence Antifa is prepared t...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

An Intractable Problem

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Over at Evolution News Denyse O'Leary has an interesting piece on attempts by scientists and philosophers to crack the intractable prob...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

The Cost of Doing Nothing

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A recent study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) puts a price tag on illegal immigration. It turns out that accord...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

What's it All About, Anyway?

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As is often the case, Robert Tracinski has some interesting things to say about a current issue - in the present case the spectacle of wea...