A collection of 109 posts
It is popular wisdom that there are many things in this world that just can’t be quantified. It may be the case, as sociologist William Bruce Cameron suggested, that “not all the counts can be counted”.
Aslan peddles a sanitized version of Islam to gullible viewers.
Pragmatists differ from rationalists by viewing unfiltered criticism of religion as a painfully counterproductive way to proceed.
As many of these confusions pertain to some variety of liberalism — classical, neo, libertarian — let’s start clarifying things there.
Bloom believed that a new “Theocratic Age” was on the horizon — a moment in which aesthetic values and artistic forms would again be governed by a religious Weltanshauung.
The claim that we are “entitled to our opinion” is a professed appeal to the principles of liberty and free speech, when in reality it undermines those principles.
Notes on an illuminating and dispiriting exchange.
Because of its emphasis on the heritability of acquired characteristics, Lysenkoism found itself at home and became an official dogma of Communist ideology.
I listen to you time and time again, while you tell me just what’s right…
For six decades, social scientists have almost universally treated intolerance as a negative social disease.
The cultural practices of manufactured outrage, sensationalism and professional offense taking seem to have set us on course for a total cultural burnout.
There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.
After discovering the work of Dr Williams, I parked myself under his learning tree and began to soak up as much information as I could.
In the 20th century, this behavior gained popularity amongst the middle class. It became “Keeping up with the Joneses.”
Herd mentality – in all its forms, both ancient and modern – is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world.