William M. Briggs

Insights on Philosophy of Beauty — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

On the eve of the greatest beauty, an essay on what beauty means. What is beauty? It may be a little complicated to define how an object, thing or person…

Culture

Thieving Elites And The Fall Of The Republic

You've already heard about the so-called COIVD "relief" bill, which surely must be the longest bill in history, coming in at just under 5,600 pages. Foreigners benefited most. Like those…

Statistics

Ignore The Rules & Restrictions Like They Do: Coronavirus Update XLV

IGNORE BAD RULES https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1340872613892014080 Ignore the bad rules just like they do. Birx was the latest one caught flaunting the rules she knew were useless, and even harmful. You flaunt…

Culture

The Fight Must Be Local — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Anyone who says the Constitution is a living document is either a tool or an idiot. The Constitution is dead. As of last week, you have exactly zero rights. None.…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Cannot Be Freed From Sin Except By Grace

Previous post. A very simple pre-Christmas lesson. You cannot heal your mortal wounds yourself, for an offence that is infinite requires infinite power. THAT MAN CANNOT BE FREED FROM SIN…

Culture

Separate Red & Blue? They’d Never Let Us Go

"Rebecca", perhaps a descendant of Abraham Lincoln, took quill in hand to write "The Separation" at the American Mind. It's one of a spate of musings on the feasibility and…

Statistics

Diversity Is Our Weakness: Special Forces Edition

https://twitter.com/USSOCOM/status/1337041831247360006 For those that can't see the tweet from the "Official Twitter account for the U.S. Special Operations Command", it reads "'Diversity and inclusion requires action. It requires decisions and…

Statistics

JAMA: Evidence Government Solutions To Prevent Transmission of COVID Cause Transmission of COVID

Here is the opening of the abstract in the new JAMA paper "Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" by Madewell et al. "Importance Crowded indoor environments, such…

RW Pearson on Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death PenaltyMay 11, 2026
In liberal California, I luckily live in Orange County, where our good Sheriff is issuing CCW permits and they are…
Cary D Cotterman on Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death PenaltyMay 11, 2026
For murderers and certain other committers of heinous crimes, I am for trials and death sentences on Fridays, the weekend…
Chad Jessup on Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death PenaltyMay 11, 2026
How about three strikes, and you're dead, which of course would only be for the very violent criminals. Why warehouse…
shawn marshall on Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death PenaltyMay 11, 2026
General Pyotr Wrangel in his bokk "Always with Honor" immediately stopped the predation by his own troo[s upon peasants by…
McChuck on Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death PenaltyMay 11, 2026
I firmly support the concept of "three strikes and you're out" as it applies to capital punishment for a series…

William M. Briggs

Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty

How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power

Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko

Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill

The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer

UFO Reports About To Blast Off!

Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples

Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay

What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?

Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory

How A Miracle Turns Mundane

Contest Winner Announced!

Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Class 85: Proper Scores of Model Goodness

Proof!

Justice Ketanji Roars

Iran Has Caught Covid: A Reason For The War

Class 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness

There Is No Solution To Crashing Fertility: Good Times Made Soft Men

Did The Pope Really Say Health Is A “Right”?

All Models Only Say What They Are Told To Say, And AI Is A Model

Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty

How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power

Insights on Philosophy of Beauty — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

Thieving Elites And The Fall Of The Republic

Ignore The Rules & Restrictions Like They Do: Coronavirus Update XLV

The Fight Must Be Local — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Cannot Be Freed From Sin Except By Grace

Separate Red & Blue? They’d Never Let Us Go

Diversity Is Our Weakness: Special Forces Edition

JAMA: Evidence Government Solutions To Prevent Transmission of COVID Cause Transmission of COVID

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification