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How Did We Do In Our 2024 Predictions?
I'm happy to report that we had a good crop of predictions for 2024. As is usual, I only highlight the best, or worst, or funniest forecast every entrant gave.…
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How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)
We continue our leisurely and in-depth study of the works of David Stove. We're still with his book On Enlightenment. This article is long, so if you're short of time,…
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What Science Can Say About Vaccines: And What It Can’t Say
Interesting times for science are in store given the incoming administration. RFK, Jr. has been tasked to make America Healthy Again. He will fail where he encourages women to kill…
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See You On The Other Side
Half the country will be unhappy late tonight. Or in a few days, when the last of the new votes are "discovered". Yet be of good cheer! This was all…
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The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then Suddenly
Here's a graph which I entitle Gradually Then Suddenly (ladies, try not to swoon over my astonishing artistic gifts): If you're a classicist you might prefer the title Motus In…
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Crime Issue Reveals the Real Source of Nation’s Political Divide — Guest Post by ST Karnick
Karnik is more in touch with "normies" than the author of this blog/Substack, and I thought it would be interesting to bring us that perspective. For instance, I look with…
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Quelling Violence In Terror States! The Return Of Dickman
Here is the opening sentence in the Abstract of a paper in the NEJM, as hilariously false as you are like to see these days: "Violence against women receives little…
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The Farcical Evangelical ‘Betrayal’ Argument Against Trump
This is a slow week, so I thought it would be amusing to look at a ham-fisted campaign the left is running to discourage Christian Trump voters. (As I was…