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Columbia Law School Kiddies ‘Traumatized’, Exams Postponed: Update Harvard Joins

There's a story in John Toland's magisterial The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire (volume two) which depicts a Japanese ship transporting Western prisoners in conditions…

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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…

Statistics

The Letter The Lancet Wouldn’t Publish

Here's the title of a big new peer-reviewed paper in The Lancet: Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the…

Culture Philosophy

The Moral Case Against Designer Babies

"Should prospective parents seek information about gene variants that increase the risk their children will develop diseases as adults? Should physicians provide that information?" So asks Ronald Bailey, only just…

Culture

Trigger Warnings And The Feminismization Of America

Update New & Improved title! I think it was Clint Eastwood who, as Dirty Harry, gave the world's most famous trigger warning: I know what you're thinking: "Did he fire…

Philosophy

Are We Hard-Wired for Faith? Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Bob Kurland is a "retired, cranky, old physicist." This article originally ran in modified form at Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart…

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HANDY Not So Dandy: NASA-Funded Mathematical Model Of Doom

Mathematically minded Remember back in the 1990s when otherwise intelligent people would look to the scientific literature and say, "Those guys must be right. They used a computer model." A…

Hagfish Bagpipe on Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970sOctober 31, 2025
To follow up, on screaming -- in 1986 I fell off a turnip wagon, blond and blue, in New York…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Changes Are Coming: Our Return to 1970sOctober 31, 2025
Briggs, you are the master of hard-boiled, surreal, precise, colorful, expansive poetry masquerading as cultural commentary. You are our age's…
Briggs on Stay The Course: Have Some ClassOctober 30, 2025
Nate, Now how in the world did that happen. I fixed it and it didn't take. Fixed again, and this…
Nate on Stay The Course: Have Some ClassOctober 30, 2025
Matt it still says @briggs.com I sent you some dough using the right address though. end p values for ever!!
Briggs on Last Call For Alcohol-Cancer PapersOctober 30, 2025
Rich, Yep.