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…

spetzer86 on A New Kind Of University: Your Comments WantedAugust 25, 2026
Sadly, you'd never get through the traditional academic review boards and the required certifications forcing compliance with mainstream thought. You…
Bill Hankel on A New Kind Of University: Your Comments WantedAugust 25, 2026
As someone who is currently almost 65 years old, and has never attended college, I'm in! It has been obvious…
McChuck on A New Kind Of University: Your Comments WantedAugust 25, 2026
It's not a terrible idea. It could work, given sufficient determination and willpower over decades and generations.
Brian (bulaoren) on Bad Black Health Blamed On SlaveryAugust 22, 2026
Enough time has passed, since this post went up, for me to feel no need to stick to the topic.…
David on Bad Black Health Blamed On SlaveryAugust 20, 2026
I would also like to point out that slaves often had *better* medical care than their working-class white counterparts, being…