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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Whataboutism

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Attorney General Merrick Garland has thrown the country into a tizzy by executing an FBI raid on the home of Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. P...
Monday, August 15, 2022

Important Fusion Breakthrough

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One of the goals of those researching cleaner energy is to produce heat the way the sun does it, through nuclear fusion. Unlike nuclear fiss...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

The FBI Doesn't Deserve Our Respect

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In the wake of an historically unprecedented raid on the home of a former president by agents of the FBI - a raid that Geraldo Rivera likens...
Friday, August 12, 2022

No New Ideas

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In a piece written for his Dispatch column Jonah Goldberg maintains that there have only been two big, new ideas in the history of Western ...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Why Our Universe Cannot be Infinitely Old

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One thorny problem for any naturalist metaphysics is that the consensus among scientists is that the universe came into being at some point ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

The Coming War with China

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Hal Brands and Michael Beckley, authors of the forthcoming book Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China , have written a very informativ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

A Secular Case for Life?

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At The Dispatch David French responds to the argument made by many Pro-Choicers that those opposed to abortion are invariably animated by r...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Mr. Biden's Economy

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The Biden administration is trying hard to convince us that we're not in a recession because we're at very low unemployment rates. T...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

The Revolution in Philosophy

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For some years now there has been a quiet revolution occurring in university philosophy departments throughout the West. Whereas for the bet...
Friday, August 5, 2022

For the Record

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In his most recent column at The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Jason Riley notes the "complicated relationship" th...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

What's a Conservative to Do?

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One of the difficulties confronting conservative voters in recent and upcoming elections is that given a choice between a man whose personal...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Does the President Care?

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The Biden administration has shown either shocking incompetence during it's nineteen months in office or a sheer will to purposely trans...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Is Religion Dying?

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Lots of stories have been written in recent years about the rise of the "Nones," by which is understood those who have no religio...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

War News

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From the start of the war the news out of Ukraine was, for the Russians, rarely good, and last week was no exception. The first piece of ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Our Breathtaking World

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Here's a brief video from Lad Allen that presents some amazing facts about the number of stars in our universe, the number of grains of ...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

An Atheist's Dilemma

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Alfredo Metere is a senior research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, and the University of California, Berkeley. ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Joe Pangloss

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The character named Dr. Pangloss in Voltaire's novella Candide was the picture of optimism. No matter how bad circumstances around him ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Will AI Become Human?

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Recently an engineer at Google made the startling claim that their computer, LaMDA, was actually sentient and self-aware. Here's some o...
Monday, July 25, 2022

On Following the Crowd

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Kylee Griswold writing at The Federalist about the Respect for Marriage act which the Senate may be considering soon. The RFM act would cod...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

American Exceptionalism

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In a short work titled American Exceptionalism sociologist Charles Murray summarizes the characteristics which he thinks make, or made, Ame...