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This classic column appeared in July 2015. Besides some editing, I would now change ‘liberal’ to ‘progressive’, which I have done in the title. I made no othre change. See especially the […]
[The image above flashed by on the interwebs, and it struck me as humorously apt, though I can’t now recall where I first saw it. If the picture has any truth it […]
A review of the book Why Only Us: Language and Evolution by Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky. Everybody knows, or used to know, that only men speak. Animals make noise, but men […]
I have a new paper out in Academic Questions, a review, “Math: Old, New, and Equalitarian.” Springer is charging a mere pittance for viewing it. Only $39.95. But I think you can […]
A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show that the […]
Another version of this article first appeared at Kurland’s site. Scientism, the belief that science can explain everything about the world and ourselves, is a religion, although not formally expressed as such. […]
Austin Ruse kindly sent me a copy of his new Fake Science: Exposing the Left’s Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data, a book readers of this blog will take to like […]
One Peter Five: Review of Feser and Bessette’s By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment. Also see if there are any comments at Feser’s place. Sometime […]
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