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Friday, April 16, 2021

Help Me Hate White People

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In his great dystopic novel, 1984 , George Orwell depicts a totalitarian society, called Oceania, in which the government produces in its ci...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

The Continuing Border Crisis

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National Review's Jim Geraghty cites some statistics that give us a snapshot of what's happening on our southern border. It's n...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Corporate Sanctimony

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In a column in the Wall Street Journal Karl Rove highlights the hypocrisy of our corporate CEOs - particularly Robert Manfred of Major Leag...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

A Bunch of Questions

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Here are some questions that have probably occurred to just about everybody who has thought about these matters, but perhaps the questions s...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Fueling Racial Resentments

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In a column at The American Conservative Rod Dreher cites four recent cases where a member of a racial or ethnic minority murdered one or m...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

The Assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

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Some readers might recall the killing of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last November. The details of the assassination we...
Friday, April 9, 2021

What?!

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You may not have heard about it from the mainstream media but President Biden delivered himself of a remarkable claim the other day while pr...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

Moral Paralysis

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I've run the following post on moral relativism several times in the past, and having talked about that topic recently in my classes I t...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Human Equality

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It's commonly assumed that our ideas of the worth of the individual, of human rights and human equality all arose out of the period roug...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Gonzaga Won?!

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A friend writes: Congratulations to Gonzaga! Turns out those mail-in baskets that weren't counted until around 3 a.m. made all the dif...

Brouhaha Over the Georgia Voting Law

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It's astonishing to see how corporations, which just a decade or two ago were the boogeymen of Democrat mythology, have now become that ...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Big Tech Book Burning

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Josh Holdenried vice president and executive director of Napa Legal Institute, summarizes Big Tech's efforts to cancel organizations, a...
Saturday, April 3, 2021

John Updike on the Resurrection of Jesus

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The American novelist John Updike (1932-2009) was not only a great writer, he was something of a paradox. The recipient of two Pulitzers and...
Friday, April 2, 2021

A Good Friday Meditation

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As Christians observe this the most solemn day of the church year, the day traditionally called Good Friday, it might be helpful for both Ch...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

The Miracle of Easter

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The Christian world prepares to celebrate this Sunday what much of the rest of the Western world finds literally incredible, the revivificat...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

The Evil Men Do

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As the Christian world prepares to remember again this Friday the torture and cruel execution of Jesus some two thousand years ago, it would...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Return of the God Hypothesis

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Today is the day that philosopher of science Stephen Meyer's latest book is to be released. It's titled The Return of the God Hypoth...
Monday, March 29, 2021

Why Is It?

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Why is it that conservatives are accused of being divisive but liberals almost never are? Conservatives find themselves today on defense aga...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Consciousness and Evolution

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One of the many problems consciousness poses for naturalism (the view that only the natural world exists, there is no supernature) is the di...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Either Luck or Design

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Yesterday's post discussed the very narrow range of values to which the masses of subatomic particles must be restricted in order for a ...