May 2016 – Page 3 – William M. 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…

NLR on Universities Need To Be Made To Lose PrestigeJuly 28, 2025
I'm not sure if Universities are all that prestigious anymore. Probably the height of the prestige of universities was either…
Cary Cotterman on Universities Need To Be Made To Lose PrestigeJuly 28, 2025
Parents obsessed with getting their kids into "elite" universities are fools. Today, I'd never hire anyone who had gone to…
Tars Tarkas on Universities Need To Be Made To Lose PrestigeJuly 28, 2025
The best way to allow the uni to DIE is to end the student loan program and ban foreign students.…
Hoyos on Universities Need To Be Made To Lose PrestigeJuly 28, 2025
“Losing to win”, doesn’t work, not really. Look at the UK, they scuttled the conservatives, vile as they’ve become, assuming…
yesitdid on Jung’s Synchronicity & CoincidenceJuly 27, 2025
Doctor Briggs. I suspect Carl Jung might thought a little bit like me. Although I'm not normally psychotic, my brain…