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Monday, June 10, 2024

Race in America

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Americans with short time horizons often think that racism in the U.S. is at unprecedentedly high levels. In fact, media incitements to the ...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

Taxonomy of the American Right

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Matthew Continetti has written an interesting analysis of contemporary conservatism at The Washington Free Beacon in which he argues that ...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Incredible Courage

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Meatgrinder

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In recent months Russia has launched a concentrated attack against Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, and the media often gloomily ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

An Irrational Rule

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A somewhat older piece in Aeon by J. Bradley Studemeyer makes the case that philosophy as a discipline is often subject to the whims of fas...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

The Warfare Myth

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You have doubtless heard that ever since the dawn of the Enlightenment science and religion have been at loggerheads - the persecution of Ga...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Point of No Return

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A friend wrote to me recently to tell me that another friend had told him that he thought the travesty that played out in the Manhattan cour...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Skepticism about Alien Visitors

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There've been numerous reports of UFOs in the news and lots of speculation that these objects are alien visitors from some other planet....
Friday, May 31, 2024

Perversion of Justice?

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Greg Price posted eleven reasons on Twitter why so many people believe that the Trump "Hush-Money" trial orchestrated by Alvin Br...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Cut Flowers

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The British atheist and writer Douglas Murray is, like Richard Dawkins, what some have called a "cultural" Christian. He doesn...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Deep Design Requires a Mind

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The narrator of this almost 8:00 minute video on Mount Rushmore makes an interesting comment. I'm paraphrasing, but he notes that none o...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

The Trinity

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Last Sunday was Trinity Sunday in the Christian calendar, and the concept of a Triune God raises difficult theological questions. Many attem...
Monday, May 27, 2024

A Day to Honor Valor

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Memorial Day was originally established to honor those who lost their lives in service to our country in time of war, but maybe it's not...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Which Worldview Is More Rational? (Pt.II)

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Yesterday we examined the objection to theistic belief that belief in God is irrational. In reply to this objection I suggested that there a...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Which Worldview Is More Rational? (Pt. I)

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A criticism often leveled against theistic belief is that it's irrational to believe in an entity (God) that can't be observed. Fren...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Who's Right About Meaning?

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One of the questions I've been particularly interested in over the years is whether those philosophers, many atheists among them, who cl...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Presidential Pandering

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President Biden has a disconcerting habit of pandering in the most obsequious fashion when addressing African American audiences. Speaking...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Petition to Cut Harrison Butker

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A gentleman by the name of Willard Harris has started a petition calling upon the Kansas City Chiefs to dismiss their place-kicker, Harriso...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Mob Tyranny

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Robert Kaplan, writing for the Wall street Journal a couple of years ago, discussed a 1960 book by a scholar named Elias Canetti who, Kapla...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

The Lonely Activist

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A note by R.R. Reno in First Things sheds a bit of light on the psychological makeup of those who engage in political activism. Reno cites ...