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A Stirring Spirited Speech: Bronze Age Mindset — Reviewed
Lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them […]
Glubb Glubb Glubb: The Noise A Drowning Civilization Makes
Here are excerpts and minor commentary on Lieutenant General Sir John Bagot Glubb’s “The Fate of Empires“, an essay which describes, at least for the West and for nations closely allied with […]
Ritchie On Causes Of Evolution
Since we’ve been having fun discussing evolution, and because of YOS’s repeated plea to distinguish observation of evolution (he provided this link), i.e. change, between the causes of these changes, I thought […]
Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part I
This series originally began 5 August 2012. The links to the remainder are below. Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. This […]
The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove
Jim Franklin hosted this classic essay of the late David Stove’s for many years. But he received a complaint from one of the intellectually Tolerant. As Franklin said on this site, “An […]
Formal Logic And Probability
One of the arguments is that probability does not extend predicate logic, but does extend propositional logic. The concern is that because predicate logic is formal and propositional logic is not, or […]
Carbon Fibre Masculinity, Homosociality, Gendered Surfaces, & Idiot Academics
Tell you right up front that the only way to be sure of solving the crisis in higher education is to nuke universities from orbit and then salt the grounds once the […]
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