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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Why We Celebrate St. Patrick's Day

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Millions of Americans, many of them descendents of Irish immigrants, celebrate their Irish heritage by observing St. Patrick's Day today...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Stephen Hawking, R.I.P.

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Perhaps no contemporary scientist has acquired the cultural cache and fame that Stephen Hawking managed to accrue during his career as a phy...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Dialogue "Partners"

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I’ve been reflecting lately on why some people, even some friends, are difficult to have a conversation with. There are some people with who...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

The End of Secularism

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Some years ago a professor of political science named Hunter Baker came out with a fine book titled The End of Secularism . The problem Bake...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

George Berkeley at 333

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Yesterday was the 333rd anniversary of the birth of Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1685). I recently came across a very good essay on Be...
Monday, March 12, 2018

The "Old Enough" Argument

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I should say up front that I don't in principle oppose raising the age at which someone can purchase some firearms to 21. That may surp...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

The Art of the Witty Insult

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A couple of recent posts touched on the loss of civil discourse in our public square and reminded me of a Viewpoint post from long ago which...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Alinsky's Rule #12

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Students sometimes wonder why and how our politics have gotten so nasty. Actually, this is not a recent development. Many conservative comme...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Projection

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Annafi Wahed describes herself as a tiny, talkative, Asian young woman who spent four months on Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign staff. T...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Socrates

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Socrates (470–399 BC) was one of the most influential philosophers in all of human history. He himself never wrote anything but his unique m...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Cosmic Fine-Tuning Made Easy

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Philosopher of science Robin Collins is one of the world's foremost authorities on cosmic fine-tuning, a topic that has popped up on Vie...
Monday, March 5, 2018

What's the Alternative?

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In the course of a recent column Rod Dreher gives an excellent explication of why Donald Trump is today the President of the United States....
Saturday, March 3, 2018

Do We Have Free Will?

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In this five minute video from Prager U. Frank Pastore gives us an introduction to the question of whether we actually have free will and ho...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Hard Lesson

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Early last month several hundred Syrian troops accompanied by hundreds of Russian mercenaries, about 500 attackers in all, launched a ground...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Lawrence Krauss and the Moral Problem

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Buzzfeed has an article which recounts accusations of sexual improprieties toward women by celebrity atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss....
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

NORKs Get an Eye-Opener

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Strategy Page suggests a possible (probable?) reason for the sudden apparent thawing on the part of the North Koreans toward the South. Ir...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Augustine on Friendship

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A couple of weeks ago I posted some of C.S. Lewis' thoughts on the topic of friendship. Lewis spoke of how friendship was rooted in shar...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Why Naturalism Is Self-Refuting

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Among the live options for worldviews on offer in modern times certainly one of the most popular among scientists, philosophers, and other a...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

The Astonishing Krebs Cycle

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The Krebs citric acid cycle is a complex process that occurs in the mitochondria of most of the cells in our bodies resulting in the product...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Scientific Heretic

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One of the most interesting intellectual developments of the last couple of decades has been the trend among scientists and other thinkers w...