Author Archives: Bradlaugh

Secular Celebration

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Bradlaugh

From this weekend’s Radio Derb (transcript here): As an unbeliever, I have naturally asked NRO to give me paid leave for the entire month of May so I can celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of David Hume, taking a … Continue reading →

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End of Faith … Here and There

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Bradlaugh

“Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says.”  Thus the headline on the Beeb News website.  And those nine nations would be which?  Lemme see if I can guess:  Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Thailand, Israel, . . .  Am I getting … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion | 10 Comments

Old-Time Irreligion

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Bradlaugh

The British philosopher Colin McGinn gives us that old-time irreligion in this essay “Why I Am an Atheist“. I normally can’t take very much of this well-worn atheism-vs.-agnosticism stuff, but McGinn pulls it off very well & I found myself reading … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, philosophy, Religion | 5 Comments

Lexington, Concord Fought In Vain

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Bradlaugh

Andrew: The fame of C.S. Lewis’s “trilemma” argument has always been deeply baffling to me. The normal reaction of a thoughtful person (me, Martin Gardner, Richard Dawkins) on first hearing it is: Why couldn’t Jesus just have been mistaken? People … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, Religion | 11 Comments

Way To Go

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Bradlaugh

[Cross-posted to The Corner] Taoism (which we are nowadays supposed to write as “Daoism,” though neither spelling is more correct than the other) is the country cousin of major world religions: generally thought to be long on gaudy superstition and … Continue reading →

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Free Publicity

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Bradlaugh

Was the Tucson shooter inspired by the American Renaissance race-realist website/newsletter?  The Obamarrhoids planted a suggestion that he was; Fox News took the bait; American Renaissance denied and disproved the slur; now the accusers seem to have backed off.  This little … Continue reading →

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Bradlaugh Savaged by Dead Sheep

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Bradlaugh

Here’s a cross-posting from The Corner at National Review Online. Been doing a few rounds with the George W. Bush fans, most recently with one Peter Wehner, who worked in Bush’s Department Of Alleviating All Suffering Everywhere And Hang The … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, science | 8 Comments

Cranks Without Power

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Bradlaugh

Mr. Hume:  I saw your post about John West’s ISI article “Darwin, Scientism, and the Misguided Quest for Darwinian conservatism” just as I finished reading the two new biographies of Galileo. (For review in the New Criterion. The biographies are here and … Continue reading →

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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Bradlaugh

In a recent book, libertarian Joel Kotkin exulted over the prospect of us adding 100 million to our population by 2050. In contrast to those East Asian and European nations with declining demographics, he argues, by taking in masses of … Continue reading →

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Islam and HBD

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Bradlaugh

A friend writes concerning Mr. Hume’s post Islam, generalizations, barbarism, and structural conflicts: The tone of Mr. Hume’s essay is, in your terminology, a “culturist” one, of a “Blank Slate” kind. Example: “Moving specifically to Muslim perspective the experiences of … Continue reading →

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