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The premiere magazine of sock color, celebrity tittle tattle, and lightly disguised advertorials has released their eagerly anticipated opinion of the Holy Bible. GQ took a moment out from letting us know […]
This post originally appeared right before the Uncertainty did. Now that we’re 1.5 years out, it’s time for a re-post. Buy it now, but it today, and buy it again tomorrow! Chapter […]
This classic column appeared in July 2015. Besides some editing, I would now change ‘liberal’ to ‘progressive’, which I have done in the title. I made no other change. See especially the […]
[The image above flashed by on the interwebs, and it struck me as humorously apt, though I can’t now recall where I first saw it. If the picture has any truth it […]
A review of the book Why Only Us: Language and Evolution by Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky. Everybody knows, or used to know, that only men speak. Animals make noise, but men […]
I have a new paper out in Academic Questions, a review, “Math: Old, New, and Equalitarian.” Springer is charging a mere pittance for viewing it. Only $39.95. But I think you can […]
A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show that the […]
Another version of this article first appeared at Kurland’s site. Scientism, the belief that science can explain everything about the world and ourselves, is a religion, although not formally expressed as such. […]
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