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Friday, July 16, 2021

Darwin's Racism and Sexism

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I mentioned a few days ago that Allison Hopper's essay in Scientific American was so absurd as to be embarrassing to both her and the jo...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

William Galston on CRT

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Former Clinton administration official and current Wall Street Journal contributor William Galston has a piece in Wednesday's Journal (...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

The Culture War Is a Long War

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Tanner Greer has written a very interesting essay at a site called Scholar's Stage titled Culture Wars Are Long Wars . Although he do...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Intellectual Virtues

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One of my favorite works in philosophy is a book by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) titled On Liberty . Throughout this...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Closing the Door to the Divine Foot

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One of the most fascinating fields of study in biology is the field of embryology - the study of how a zygote develops into an adult organis...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Who's Responsible for the Culture War?

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One of the aspects of our modern politics that's particularly galling is the brazen dishonesty of the political class. President Trump...
Friday, July 9, 2021

White Privilege

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According to the taxonomy of racism represented by the pyramid featured in a couple of previous posts, white privilege is a form of "c...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

Hopper's Whoppers

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An article by Allison Hopper at Scientific American is, or should be, embarrassing to both the author and her editor. Ms. Hopper's thes...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Are Minds a Different Substance from Brains?

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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor recently debated naturalistic philosopher David Papineau on the mind/body problem. Egnor, a Catholic theist, beli...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

An Atheist's Moral Confusion

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A few years back Buzzfeed ran an article recounting accusations of alleged sexual improprieties toward women by celebrity atheist and physi...
Monday, July 5, 2021

China's Barbarism

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Last Friday I posted a piece on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the CCP in which I mentioned the brutal history of the party. Wh...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Happy Birthday America (Whatever's Left of You)

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Saturday, July 3, 2021

A Cut Flower Civilization

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There's an interesting essay at Mercatornet by Jonathon Van Maren in which he observes that a number of atheist writers are lamenting t...
Friday, July 2, 2021

The Persecution of Jimmy Lai

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The Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 100th anniversary yesterday, and they had much to celebrate. Since the civil war in 1949 in which...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Michael Ruse on Purpose

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Michael Ruse is a philosopher at Florida State University and a prolific author of books and papers on philosophy and biology. In almost all...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Convolutions of Identity Politics

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The intellectual contortions and convolutions of Identity Politics make one's head spin. Here's an example: Yesterday's post m...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Your Racism Is Unavoidable and Ineradicable

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Are you a white supremacist? According to something called the white supremacy pyramid employed by some "anti-racist" speakers you...