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Author Archives: Bradlaugh
New Mysterian Plants Marker
Goodness, Heather, you do stir ’em up, don’t you? Look at that comment thread! Perhaps it all hinges on belief in the Afterlife. If you can swallow that, the rest of the God business goes down pretty easily. Thinking about … Continue reading
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Pythagoras Meets the Talmud
My 2003 review of Kevin MacDonald’s book The Culture of Critique is still generating a dribble of emails. I just got a rather good one from a Talmudic scholar. It touches on some of the things we talk about here. … Continue reading
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Andy Ross’s Book
I’m a keen reader of Andy Ross’s blog. (And he’s a something reader of my stuff — at any rate, he re-posted, with intelligent comments, my ruminations on the “Science of Consciousness” conference last spring.) Andy’s a philosopher — he has … Continue reading
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Save the Apostrophe!
I have some Derbishly mean-spirited (I hope!) remarks about the cavalier use of apostrophes in my upcoming month-end diary on NRO. Had I read this story before sending in my copy, I would have been more restrained. Apparently the apostrophe … Continue reading
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No Two Alike
Mr. Hume: Although The Nurture Assumption made the more noise, I actually liked No Two Alike the better of JRH’s two books. It begins with a pair of identical twins joined together at the head since birth. You can’t get … Continue reading
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Who’s the More Science-Hostile, Right or Left?
Following my having said (previous post) that any political position will find some human-science results obnoxious, a reader asked me, off-line, to identify a finding — not a practice, like embryo-destructive stem cell research, but a finding — that is obnoxious … Continue reading
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Science and Public Policy (cont.)
As I pointed out in a column a few weeks back, there are two sides to the Left’s claim to be the more science-friendly faction. It’s not just conservative politics that is hostile to science, it’s any politics, though the … Continue reading
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Piety and Foreign Aid
President Obama’s implication that the Bush Administration stinted on foreign aid was the most disingenuous part of his inaugural speech. It may also have been the most depressing. It signals that he is likely to replace one kind of faith-based … Continue reading
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What’s the Difference?
I watched Bill O’Reilly’s show last night on Fox News. The Big Mick was going on about how the successful ditching of that plane in the Hudson River, and the rescue of all on board, must have been a miracle. … Continue reading
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Evolution, Technology, and the Economy
A reader draws my attention to this rather good systems-theoretic piece by Matt Ridley in the London Spectator. Charles Darwin, who was born 200 years ago next month, has spent the 150 years since he published The Origin of Species … Continue reading
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