William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: Creatures Didn’t Necessarily Always Exist

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. After last…

Culture Fun

How To Be Poor — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell

Neal Gabler's confession in the May Atlantic about his inability to gather $400 in an emergency is riveting reading. The article details the wreckage of one bad decision after another.…

Culture

The Culture Wars Are Over: Reality Routed, Lunatics Victorious

The declaration that the Culture Wars are over and won by the Lunatics, is, I think, true, at least in América del Norte. Reality has lost and is in full…

Culture Statistics

Evolutionary Psychologists Claim Religion Is Explained By Energy Use. Here’s Why They’re Wrong

Today's post is at the Stream: Evolutionary Psychologists Claim Religion Is Explained By Energy Use. Here's Why They're Wrong. It has become clear that the common statistical techniques used by…

Podcast

Lucky You! All About Luck — WMBriggs Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEz3x8J21Ns Robert Goulet: Time After Time So there's this guy, "J"---and this is a true story, so pay attention. J's doing well, a pillar of his community. Big family, house,…

Culture

A New Kind Of University: An Open Discussion

We agree that the university system is "broken." The reasons why are obvious: ideology and money have so corroded the foundations that a collapse is imminent. These facts naturally lead…

Culture

Reality Made Illegal: Man Ordered To Treat Daughter As Boy

As predicted by Yours Truly, another aspect of Reality has been made illegal. Mentally recall your favorite Orwell quote as you read this headline: "Court orders dad to start treating…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Things Exist Necessarily

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. This is…

John Pate on Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With PersonalityOctober 23, 2026
The plasticity available in the brain and CNS is the confounding factor. Nature via nurture. What actually gets expressed is…
Brian (bulaoren) on Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With PersonalityOctober 22, 2026
Across the world, many jurisdictions ban pet "pit bulls". Are they in error?
NLR on Against Numerology: Some Basic CalculationsOctober 19, 2026
The mathematician Richard Guy wrote a paper "The strong law of small numbers", where he said, facetiously, but also serirously:…
aGrimm on Book UpdateOctober 16, 2026
I'm looking forward to the book; warts and all the first was enlightening and fun to read.
John Pate on Book UpdateOctober 14, 2026
I'm a big fan of LaTeX. I wrote a class package that made it into one or more of the…

William M. Briggs

Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality

I’m Thinking Of A Number Between 1 and 5 (that you can’t guess)

Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations

Class 97: The Goal Of Models

Book Update

Sexual Assault Galore At Cornell

Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?

Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save Us

Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?

Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions

Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants

Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges

Whoring For Climate Change

Lady Academics Tire Of Being Judged By Peer Review

Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable

PFAS and Preservatives: Entrenching Chemophobia through Everyday Stuff — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp

The MRS Degree — Guest Post by Johnathan Edwards

Politicians Demand “Right” To Be Protected Against AI

Class 93: P-values Challenge! List The “Good Uses” of P-value

Is the West Dying Out? The Demographic Crisis Explained: Jon Harris Podcast

Lindsay Clancy Strangled Her Kids Because Of “Climate Change”

Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality

I’m Thinking Of A Number Between 1 and 5 (that you can’t guess)

Summary Against Modern Thought: Creatures Didn’t Necessarily Always Exist

How To Be Poor — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell

The Culture Wars Are Over: Reality Routed, Lunatics Victorious

Evolutionary Psychologists Claim Religion Is Explained By Energy Use. Here’s Why They’re Wrong

Lucky You! All About Luck — WMBriggs Podcast

A New Kind Of University: An Open Discussion

Reality Made Illegal: Man Ordered To Treat Daughter As Boy

Summary Against Modern Thought: Some Things Exist Necessarily

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