Posted inBook review
Antichrist, by Saint Robert Bellarmine, Reviewed
Some establishment media is still based: you can find good stuff if you know where to look. Like in the PI. Take this op-ed in the Manila Times, by one…
Posted inCulture
E. Michael Jones vs. Michael L. Brown: Can We Speak of “The Catholics” or “The Jews”?
The readings for Sunday, 12 May (Acts 13:14, 43-52): Paul and Barnabas carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia. Here they went to synagogue on the Sabbath…
Posted inStatistics
A Case Of Bad Statistics In An IQ-Intelligence Study
We're going to soon talk more about "IQ" and "intelligence". I'm working on a more in-depth article on the subject to carefully explicate the vast over-certainties I see on "both…
Posted inCulture
A Joke About Race As Social Construct
Turns out Bhutan bans opinion polls. So I thought of making a poll asking this question: Should opinion polls be banned? * Yes, * No. Now there is only one…
Posted inBook review Philosophy
The Why & Frequency Of Miracles: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part IV
Read Part I, II, III. MOTIVE That miracles have supernatural origins is true by definition (see below, in PROBABILITY). Miracles, like all events, must have causes, and cause has motive…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Why “I Believe Survivors” Is Asinine: Kavanaugh vs. Ford, Realists vs. Fantasists.
We're interested here in why people believe this female Ford's charges against male SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh. Many progressives say Ford's evidence, even at this late date (I'm editing this on…
Posted inFun
Time To Fast: I’m Giving Up The Internet For Lent
Our friend Jay Richards, editor of The Stream, has an excellent on-going series on fasting. In Part II, he discusses how our Lord fasted for forty days. By fasted Richards…
Posted inPhilosophy
Moral Relativism Is Bogus — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Oftentimes moral relativism is defined in more abstract terms and described as the belief that values or principles are "subjective" or "relative" to individuals or cultures. What works for one…
