What is Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy? *

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Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.… Read the rest



About Patrick Henry College *

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Socialism is a violation of God’s creation order.… Read the rest



An Unbeautiful Mind *

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It is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord. … Read the rest



Grade Inflation in US higher education *

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Americans just keep getting smarter and smarter… Read the rest



Cretino-Leftism *

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Classic Symptom of Epistemological Cretino-Leftism: Claiming that criticism, reason, rational inquiry and the pursuit of truth are “instruments of oppression”.… Read the rest



The real politics behind bad academic writing *

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The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”… Read the rest



15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense *

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Scientific American provides useful tool… Read the rest



The Things We Forgot to Remember *

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OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t… Read the rest



Eagleton on Spivak *

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Be as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.… Read the rest



Scott McLemee on the Norton ‘Theory’ Anthology *

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All those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.… Read the rest



Michael Ruse reads Dawkins *

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Ruse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham… Read the rest



Intergalactic Jesus *

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Attempts to reconcile science and religion usually fail because religions make claims about the real world that don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny.… Read the rest



Margaret Talbot on Carol Gilligan *

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Gilligan’s teaching is in many ways reactionary, which also helps to account for its extraordinary success… Read the rest



The Guardian profiles E O Wilson *

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Ants, pheromones, genes, biodiversity, ecological footprints, consilience.… Read the rest



Simon Blackburn on Richard Rorty *

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Rorty has a gift for ducking and weaving and laying smoke… Read the rest



Hazlitt *

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His obscurity is a depressing lesson in contemporary cultural memory.… Read the rest



Einstein Wasn’t Writing for Time *

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Einstein’s theory of relativity did not spawn artistic modernism and moral relativism, Time magazine to the contrary notwithstanding.… Read the rest



Arguments from Incredulity and Gödel *

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‘Basically, Godel’s theorems prove the Doctrine of Original Sin, the need for the sacrament of penance, and that there is a future eternity.’… Read the rest



A Conversation Between Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker *

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Both are obsessed with realism and the pursuit of objective knowledge… Read the rest



Azam Kamguian on Islam and Education *

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The anti-secularist reaction has been bad for women and children.… Read the rest