William M. Briggs

Obama’s Climate Challenge. Do Business Leaders Dare To Take It?

Today's important political post is at The Stream: Obama's Climate Challenge. Do Business Leaders Dare To Take It? President Obama is bruiting the idea of a $10 per barrel oil…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Brought Things Into Being Out Of Nothing

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We're only…

Culture

New Pope Video: Ain’t The Planet Great?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akK7diU4Kgc Well, you can see it for yourself. The Pope, God bless him, brightly lit from below and in a voice most mellow, emphasized by environmentally friendly music, tells us…

Philosophy Statistics

Infinity, (Physical) Parameters, Fine Tuning, & Probability

Via Ed Feser I was led back to Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, which has a lot about probability. I'll not do much of…

Culture

On The Freedom Of Religion And Satanism

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of…

Culture

Stream: Olympics Might Allow Men Pretending to be Women to Compete as Women

Today's post is at the Stream: Olympics Might Allow Men Pretending to be Women to Compete as Women. If you are a true egalitarian, if you actually believe in the…

Statistics

Iowa Caucus Open Discussion. Update: Text Fixed, Those Coin Tosses Discussed

https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/694224471712878592 That tweet was my prediction early yesterday, which I made partly relying on polls but more on the size of the crowds those two men garnered. About those polls,…

Culture

On Virtue & Holiness Signalling

Since man's deepest needs are spiritual, and man lives in society and is fallen, there is bound to be among men virtue or holiness signaling. We all have the desire,…

Ronaldo Conneely on Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto WattApril 13, 2026
I usually agree with your analysis of the situation but ( I know everything before the but is a lie)…
C-Marie on Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto WattApril 13, 2026
Am thinking that President Trump can be rescued only by a true apology to all Christians for his rant on…
Robert Arvanitis on Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto WattApril 13, 2026
Alas, it's over. I came originally for the math, browsed the politics. And now it's over. Many tried to quantify…
veco on Another False Flag? — Guest Post by Ianto WattApril 13, 2026
https://www.newenglishreview.org/staying-positive-in-dark-times/
Steve on Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto WattApril 13, 2026
I've come to expect much better from Ianto Watt. I'm not talking about the Daniel stuff -- people have and…

William M. Briggs

Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Class 85: Proper Scores of Model Goodness

Proof!

Justice Ketanji Roars

Iran Has Caught Covid: A Reason For The War

Class 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness

There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men

Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?

All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A Model

It’s The End Of The World Again

Belgian Judge Wants To Arrest Little Nate Cofnast Because Cofnast Says Smart People Are Smarter Than Dumb People

Class 83: Why Were Paul Ehrlich’s Predictions So Good (and so Bad)?

The Great Effeminization of the Academy

The Only Metric That Matters: Or, Pinker’s Folly

Lancet Discovers Public Health Is Politics

Class 82: Be More Uncertain (About Models)

On Not Reading

The Great Smoothing: Another Reason Not To Fear (or trust) AI

A Synchronicity Or Coincidence? What Is Behind Curious Events?

Class 81: The Second Biggest Error In Time Series

The Paper Test Shows Why AGI Is Not Possible: And Why The Brain Is Different In Kind

Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Class 85: Proper Scores of Model Goodness

Obama’s Climate Challenge. Do Business Leaders Dare To Take It?

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Brought Things Into Being Out Of Nothing

New Pope Video: Ain’t The Planet Great?

Infinity, (Physical) Parameters, Fine Tuning, & Probability

On The Freedom Of Religion And Satanism

Stream: Olympics Might Allow Men Pretending to be Women to Compete as Women

Iowa Caucus Open Discussion. Update: Text Fixed, Those Coin Tosses Discussed

On Virtue & Holiness Signalling

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification