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Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: III
Since our walk through Summa Contra Gentiles is going so well, why not let's do the same with Pascal's sketchbook on what we can now call Thinking Thursdays. We'll use…
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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…
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The 2014 CS Lewis Lecture By RR Reno: The Piety of Pedagogy. Guest Report by The Blonde Bombshell
The working topic for the lecture was "CS Lewis: First and Second Things", no doubt inspired by the words of the Master himself, and perhaps with a wink toward a…
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We Don’t Know Anything
The Appeal to Authority is not a formal fallacy, but an "informal" one, a fancy way of admitting that arguments in the form of "Because I said so" are often…
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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…
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People’s Climate March: The Face Of True Belief #PeoplesClimate
Nice people Ready for a surprise? I liked everybody I met. I mean it. I liked them so much I hated what I had to write below. I liked the…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Last Movement
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. Previous post. Recall that the First Way has already been done.…
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Live From Heartland Climate Conference, Wrap Up
Profound thanks I cannot say enough about the generosity of my benefactor, who not only footed the bill for my trip, but wined and dined and rummed our Secret Society…