Today’s post is at The Stream: “Sins of The Synod: Behind The Scenes at The Synod on The Family”. This is a review of Edward Pentin’s must-read new book The Rigging of […]
The Only Metric That Matters
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 Austin Hughes […]
The Perfectibility of Man: Suicide of the West at 50
It’s (past) time we examined James Burnham’s under-appreciated classic Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, a book written fifty years ago. Everybody should buy this […]
There’s More Than Physics: A Review Of Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos. Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Kurland provides us with a succinct review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. This will ease us into the week with a discussion […]
The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels Reviewed
People first Just in time for the Federally-Recognized-Holiday-Of-25-December-That-Shall-Go-Unnamed we have a suitable gift for science deniers everywhere. Alex Epstein’s The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels Science deniers? Yes, sir. Those who deny […]
An Introduction To Uncertainty: Probability, Statistics, and Modeling of All Kinds
This is a teaser, the first part of a 3,200-word narrative outline for the book that I’ve started to shop around. The current title is in the headline. Regular readers know it […]
The Decline & Fall Of Radical Catholicism; Or, What The Synod Will Have Wrought
Update Comments restored. WordPress is acting strange. The first part of the title isn’t mine, but belongs to James Hitchcock who wrote a book of the same name, published in 1971 in […]
Making Gay Okay Reviewed. Part I, The Acts
Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything, by Robert R. Reilly (Ignatius Press: sample chapter). It’s common in medicine to track men who have (or who simulate) sex with […]
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