Little Nate Confas, whom I have teased before (here, here, here) for his trusting in Great Brains to save us, has been suspended by those Great Brains from Ghent University…

Here is the opening sentence of the peer-reviewed paper "Historical slavery predicts contemporary disparities in mortality between Black and White Americans": "Black–White mortality disparities remain a persistent form of inequality…

I was on with Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. the other day discussing whether moral certainty is possible. The answer is yes. But that does not imply we always know it. Here…

Reminder: no Class until after Labor Day. Headlines blared that children growing up when the UK rationed sugar, a severe act resulting from one of their many wars, caused these…

Podcast with Ian Pilon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyybFg1uZzg I'm on the road through next Monday. Posting will be somewhat oddly scheduled. There is a special post tomorrow (Thursday). Be ready for it! All…

Brit coppers---do they still call them the Old Bill?---investigated reporter Jack Grove for months because Grove investigated serial truth fornicator and black Cambridge (now ex-) professor Jason Arday, a black…

Reminder: No Class until after Labor Day. Today's title is real, and from a peer-reviewed paper of the same name by Mark Keegan and a bunch of other academics in…