William M. Briggs

There is a great and terrible danger in being a strict immovable literalist and in insisting every word in the Bible as written is the inerrant absolute word of God.…

Cast your mind back, if you are still able, to 2014. The very beginning of The Great Awokening. We ran to some acclaim a Worldwide Contest (well, the internet goes…

Briggs note: There are many stories of unbeatable foes -- like the man with the abbreviated moustache, Napoleon, etc. -- who were successful because they relied largely on their own…

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…

Peter Wood at the National Association of Scholars asked me to review Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty by Adam Kucharski. So I did. (His will is stronger than…

The black woman justice on the Supreme Court, who was appointed explicitly because she is a black woman, the search for a black woman for the then-vacant seat being announced…

My first thought when hearing the President announcing on 28 February yet another war in the Land of Endless War was "This is bad." Nothing that has happened since has…

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…