William M. Briggs

Reminder: no Class until after Labor Day. Headlines blared that children growing up when the UK rationed sugar, a severe act resulting from one of their many wars, caused these…

Podcast with Ian Pilon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyybFg1uZzg I'm on the road through next Monday. Posting will be somewhat oddly scheduled. There is a special post tomorrow (Thursday). Be ready for it! All…

Brit coppers---do they still call them the Old Bill?---investigated reporter Jack Grove for months because Grove investigated serial truth fornicator and black Cambridge (now ex-) professor Jason Arday, a black…

Reminder: No Class until after Labor Day. Today's title is real, and from a peer-reviewed paper of the same name by Mark Keegan and a bunch of other academics in…

Here is Joel Berry (former Babylon Bee chief): "Israel is a proposition nation, like America." A proposition nation is one in which, we are told, its citizens hold with a…

It was right after women seized majority control of Congress that the woman we all know as The Big Talker revealed to her husband (that balding tenured sociologist at Bryn…

https://youtu.be/PnW39ywWotc Lyrics [Verse 1]Oh the scientists are publishin', crankin' out those papers fastThey got a tiny pee-value, think they made it at long lastPoint oh five or lower, they shout…

The late Wolfgang Smith was fond of quoting St Thomas Aquinas from Summa Contra Gentiles (Book II, ch. 3): It is absolutely false to maintain, with reference to the truths…