2017 – Page 30 – William M. Briggs

Could You Do Progressivism, But From The Right?

Today's discussion question is posed by somebody calling himself Iulian Bretonescu, in "The Right Religion", which is mandatory reading. Here, for the exceptionally lazy, is a brief summary. (The literature…

Book review Culture

Reaction: Anthony Esolen’s ‘Out of the Ashes’ Reviewed

I want everybody to read Anthony Esolen's Out of the Ashes. Buy it if you can; at least borrow it. Libraries still exist in many places, and some of them…

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Science of Global Warming Reduced to Raw Emotion at People’s Climate March: Updates

The Summa Contra Gentiles sequence will return next and not this week as announced last week. Why? Because I forgot the zombies were going to take to the streets---again. Like…

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Stairway To Heaven, Or To Atheism? — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

What does 'a bustle in the hedgerow' mean? I'm referring to a previous post, wherein I said Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Paige was a liar. Why? Because there isn't 'still time…

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Vox Populi vs. Experts

On 7 March 1907, Francis Galton wrote a brief, but interesting article for Nature entitled Vox Populi, which opens, "In these democratic days, any investigation into the trustworthiness and peculiarities…

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Leftists Ramping Up The Violence: How Long Until They Kill Somebody?

Stream: Leftists Ramping Up The Violence: How Long Until They Kill Somebody? How long before somebody gets killed by an enraged leftist? Let's start a pool. I'll be the bookie…

Culture

Home School College

Note: a more thorough review of Esolen's book is coming very soon. Thanks to Ben Franklin, it has always been possible to home-school yourself to a college education. Libraries let…

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Bill Nye Pervs Science—Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46h-LfNWPn8 I'm interrupting the regularly scheduled post---I had hoped to squeeze in some reality this week and give us something to be cheerful about---to bring you another segment of Bill…

Plantagenet on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 23, 2024
At betting shops over here in the UK there seem to be two types of big event bets. The first…
Reasons Not To Like Prediction Markets – William M. Briggs on The Many Horrors, Unintended Consequences & Undesirabilities Of VotingJuly 23, 2024
[…] in the long run. This brings us to the Voting Fallacy, which I wrote about at length here (blog,…
Briggs on Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!July 23, 2024
TFBW, Fixed. Thanks.
TFBW on Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many!July 23, 2024
The link to Breaking the Law of Averages has been sabotaged by one of your enemies.
John Pate on Academics Have Contest To See How Many Times They Can Say ‘Racist’ In An Article: An IQ StoryJuly 22, 2024
The problems with IQ measurement are very well understood by proponents like Lynn. I once had lunch with a group…