Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: Aristotle vs Averroes On The Intellect & Soul

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. We're still…

Book review Fun Statistics

The Full Briggs?

Our friend Joseph Moore at Yard Sale of the Mind, a site surely on everybody's list already, whose photograph appears atop this post, wrote It doesn't get much more civilized…

Statistics

Stream: Pope Francis and President-Elect Trump Disagree on Global Warming Threat

Pope Francis and President-Elect Trump Disagree on Global Warming Threat: ... Yet the Holy Father will try and use his bully pulpit to influence the incoming administration. With the notable…

Culture

Tips From Esolen’s Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture

The embattled and shockingly non-respected Anthony Esolen (the filled-diaper crowd are flinging contents of same at him) has a new book arriving early next year: Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding…

Culture

Stream: Bioethicists Want To Purge Christian Doctors

Bioethicists Want To Purge Christian Doctors. Two academic bioethicists want to bar Christians and those who hold other traditional religious beliefs from practicing medicine, and even from attending medical school.…

Culture Philosophy

Do I Exist? (Does Russia?) Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Do I exist? Great question. And does that rock over there really exist? Another great question. For idiots. Yet those are the two questions that have tortured all of the…

Culture

Reader Challenge: Find College WITHOUT Diversity Program

Are there any (nonprofit) colleges or universities without programs, offices, or administrators for Diversity? In the United States, I mean, or, secondarily, anywhere in the West. Type "Diversity" in Harvard's…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Nature And Possible Intellect

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. We're still…

Uncle Mike on The Lancet’s New Push To Ban MeatOctober 8, 2025
Cows don't cause "climate change" whatever that is. Cows don't add new carbon, they recycle it. Cows don't "transgress planetary…
Brian (bulaoren) on The Lancet’s New Push To Ban MeatOctober 8, 2025
OK, I will start calling Rob Reiner a vegetable head.
Robert Arvanitis on The Lancet’s New Push To Ban MeatOctober 8, 2025
Yet more proof the real existential threat to humanity is government intrusion. The inexorable drive of the totalitarian-minded minority to…
C-Marie on ‘Termination Shock’: Newest Entry In Science Doom Naming ContestOctober 7, 2025
Well, Pope Leo XIV blessed a block of ice this past week, which block of ice was flown in from…
Brian (bulaoren) on ‘Termination Shock’: Newest Entry In Science Doom Naming ContestOctober 7, 2025
Some wag once compared his critics to eunuchs in a sultan's seraglio; "They see it done all the time, but…