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This Week In Doom (Indiana’s RFRA Too!)
Theme We've tried various ways of doing this over the years, but none successfully. So I'm going to steal an idea from Nick Steves and give the weekend collection of…
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Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism
The tile of today's post is the same as the new book by the National Association of Scholar's Rachelle Peterson and Peter Wood, released yesterday and which can be downloaded…
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Ought Wrongs To Be Righted? Not Always
Following up on the Bad Arguments to the Death Penalty post, we have the question Ought Wrongs To Be Righted? No: not all of them. Here is the great late…
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You’re A LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM-aphobe!
I admit it. I am afraid of the sort of person who boasts of being a card-carrying LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM member. I would not want to be in a room alone with…
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Government Witch Hunt Of Scientists Begins: DOJ To Join In? Update! Inhofe Fights Back
Please help publicize this calumny. Agree with me about this. If---and I only say if---the global-warming-of-doom we have been promised is false, then there is nothing for government to do…
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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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Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: I
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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Jerry Coyne Has A Go At Pope Francis. Shoots Self In Foot
Since it's Halloween, we may as well examine the spooks, hobgoblins, and bogeymen which taunt and haunt the minds of our public undead, which is to say, our intellectuals. Now…