Fritz Wagner over at Voegelin View has an insightful observation on Climategate here , including one of Dr. Voegelin’s prescient observations written some decades prior to the current embarrassment. . . . . Continue Reading »
So my friend Carl Scott has this very interesting reaction to the report that some Democrats are seriously considering an organized opposition to funding the surge in Afghanistan: “My initial reaction to that report was repugnance, but having thought a bit more, and about how uneasy . . . . Continue Reading »
It seems there’s a bit of a rebellion over at the porch, where the iconic Wendell Berry, the Kentucky sage, is brought down a peg or two by FPR contributing editor and founder of the late, and beloved, The New Pantagruel: Hymns in a Whorehouse, Caleb Stegall. Is this what localism has become? . . . . Continue Reading »
Longtime readers know of my obsession with mathematical beauty, so it should come as no surprise to find me hopping up and down most eagerly and pointing you towards Matthew Milliner’s very immodest proposal in Public Discourse. My only quibble with the article is that the proportion of . . . . Continue Reading »
Adam Keiper over at The New Atlantis discusses the shape and mission of the new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. The revisions made by the Obama administration are more than cosmetic or the standard changing of the guard—the entire charge of the council has been . . . . Continue Reading »
There I was, quietly chuckling over Bryan Caplan and Robin Hanson’s back and forth (and forth ) on the reasonableness of cryonics, when somebody decided to bring Derek Parfit into things . Says Julian: In reality, our ordinary way of talking about this leads to a serious mistake that Robin . . . . Continue Reading »
So, like every other American who’s not a Porcher, I watched TV and went to the movies over the Thanksgiving holiday. Here’s the best I heard and saw: AN EDUCATION is a genuinely erotic, sophisticated, conversational movie about a brilliant, beautiful girl of sixteen who learns . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to all of you who have sent in ideas for the conference at Berry College on teaching American politics. For a variety of reasons originating in my personal incompetence, the conference will now be on April 22. We’re still taking suggestions and looking for volunteers. One of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the New Atlantis, I have a brief editorial on the Climate email scandal that just erupted a few days ago. The emails just recently made public are not just illuminating with respect to the scientific intergrity of this particular group of scientists, or the general scientific legitimacy of . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m now getting around to writing an essay on Locke and Darwin. Here’s a taste pretty relevant to various recent POSTMODERN and CONSERVATIVE posts: Darwin himself had a naïve faith in the almost inevitable natural evolution of the “moral sense” of members of our . . . . Continue Reading »
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