I have a problem. Two, actually. The first is numeric. The second, chronologic. Both relate to an epochal series of historic events occurring nearly 500 years ago, in Mesoamerica. My problems are […]
Science After Babel by David Berlinski Reviewed
David Berlinski is one of our best critics of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. He spends some time on this in his new book, which is a collection of pieces from hither […]
Empire Of Hatred: A Study of the Revolution by Richard Greenhorn Reviewed
Richard Greenhorn says, and we believe him, that there have been five, count ’em, five revolutions in the West, each piling on to the destructive forces of the previous. These five are […]
Forget Lie Detectors: Use This New Book — Guest Post by Kent Clizbe (Title by Briggs)
I’ve known Kent for many years, and we have worked together on various ideas of so-called lie detectors. I and he are both skeptics. I am because I have had them in […]
Worst Science Fiction of All Time
Shoot to kill July 1995 I wrote this in 1995 and had it posted to my student website at Cornell. I thought that it was lost forever, and I only managed to […]
How Our Dictator Arrives: Surfing On A Wave Of Paperwork — Review of the Forgotten ‘The Law of Longer Life’ by Parkinson & Le Compte
The list of authors who have theories on how civilizations end is not small: Ibn Kaldun, Spengler, Toynbee, Strauss and Howe, Turchin, Glubb all stress that civilizations have existed but not longer […]
The Politics Of Prudence by Russel Kirk Reissued — And Reviewed
There have been many purges on the right, led for instance by National Review and William F Buckley, removing from polite society those who were considered “extreme” elements. People who would embarrass […]
Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell Reviewed
Thomas Sowell agrees that Everything The Woke Believe Is Wrong. And the reason they are wrong is that they rely on fallacies to justify themselves. Lots and lots of fallacies. Some are […]
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