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Harvard Classes: Marilyn Monroe and Lucille Ball

Yesterday, we pointed out that Cornell has some odd courses on its books, subjects which are not consonant with typical expectations of a classical education. So, in the interest of…

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You Too Can Be A Genius After 10,000 Hours

No, you cannot. That title is a lie, and, judging by a recent spate of books on the subject, a popular one. Ann Hulbert of Slate has compiled a list…

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Will The Religious Out-Breed Us All?

Thanks to long-time reader and contributer Ari Schwartz for bringing this to our attention. "It is widely agreed that religion has biological foundations---that belief in the supernatural, obedience to authority…

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David Stove, PMS Admakers Apologize For PMS Apology Ad, San Franciscan Criminals, More

David Stove David Stove has a posthumous essay, put out in book form: Whatâ€™s Wrong With Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment. There is a review at…

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Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities

Busy day. So here, just for fun, and woefully incomplete, are a list of "rights" recently discovered. Remember: there can be no rights without responsibilities. If you invoke a right,…

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The Selfish Genes Of Dennett’s Atheists

If you're not busy this December 2nd and 3rd, and happen to be in the Buffalo area, you might drop in on the Center for Inquiry's symposium "Daniel Dennett and…

JerryR on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
Atheism, materialism, agnosticism, etc., is bankrupt intellectually. Over the last 2 1/2 years, I have been studying belief in a…
Jay on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
A person without a belief of a subject, will have no opinion of the same. The old canard is just…
Cary Cotterman on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
Atheism is absence of belief in a god or gods. That's all there is to it. It's not complicated.
Cloudbuster on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
MIchael Dowd: "It is ironic that God oriented holidays are framework retail activity, i.e., raking in the money, the god…
Michael Dowd on Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t PreachDecember 6, 2024
It is ironic that God oriented holidays are framework retail activity, i.e., raking in the money, the god of materialism.