"The conceptual penis as a social construct" is a peer-reviewed paper by two fellows who used fake names, published in the journal Cogent Social Sciences. The real authors were Peter…
I got fired about a month ago. This would ordinarily fall under the categories, "About time" or "So?", and thus it is not worth mentioning. Except for this. I had…
The original story begins below, which ran on 14 February 2017. Events since then have confirmed the original conclusions. Middlebury Update Violent students at Middlebury College attacked and badly wounded…
I've been reading reviews of the the peevish Jerry Coyne's new book Faith Versus Fact (I don't have any money to give him to buy an actual copy). Recommended is…
Since it's Halloween, we may as well examine the spooks, hobgoblins, and bogeymen which taunt and haunt the minds of our public undead, which is to say, our intellectuals. Now…
It took Jerry Coyne a while, but it appears---or rather, I should say there is weak and not overly convincing evidence---that the man has finally read David Bentley Hart's The…
A longer version of this essay can be found at Kurland's site. Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each…