Author Archives: David Hume

The trinity is incoherent

Posted on March 17, 2014 by David Hume

I quite like BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time. But the most recent episode was on the Trinity. You can listen to online. Most of the time the host has scholars who are there to illuminate the educated public on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 5 Comments

Multiculturalism will collapse due to its own internal contradictions

Posted on March 10, 2014 by David Hume

Canada is arguably the apotheosis of modern Western multiculturalism (nations like Belgium are not in any sort of honeymoon phase obviously with the idea of inter-cultural amity). This article in The New York Times highlights the fundamental problem at the … Continue reading →

Posted in culture | Tagged | 1 Comment

Critique for thee, not for me

Posted on February 11, 2014 by David Hume

Over at The Nation Michelle Goldberg has a long piece on the internecine conflicts within online feminism. First, an admission. I’ve long been a follower of these blow-ups on the feminist Left blogosphere because it is compelling to me in … Continue reading →

Posted in culture | Tagged | 5 Comments

Wendy Davis more conventionally impressive

Posted on January 22, 2014 by David Hume

On Wendy Davis, it turns out that she elided aspects of her biography to burnish a particular image. I don’t think this will be a long term problem, anymore than Newt Gingrich’s history of philandering was an issue for social … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments Off on Wendy Davis more conventionally impressive

The decline of the humanities, the rise of the obscurities

Posted on January 5, 2014 by David Hume

From Heather, The Humanities Have Forgotten Their Humanity: Until 2011, students majoring in English at UCLA had to take one course in Chaucer, two in Shakespeare, and one in Milton —the cornerstones of English literature. Following a revolt of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia | Tagged | 3 Comments

This American Life episode on housing discrimination very misleading

Posted on November 30, 2013 by David Hume

Last week This American Life had an episode on housing discrimination, House Rules, which drew upon a ProPublica series, Living Apart – Fair Housing in America. The TAL episode began with a side-by-side comparison of the differing treatments of black … Continue reading →

Posted in Biased reporting, Race | 1 Comment

To make the no-God an idol

Posted on November 11, 2013 by David Hume

Atheists need to stop making fun of “Christian rock” and the assorted second rate derivates of culture produced by the evangelical subculture if this is not a rip-off of The Onion, Atheist ‘mega-churches’ look for nonbelievers: It looked like a … Continue reading →

Posted in culture | Tagged | 7 Comments

Left-Right synergy that could have been

Posted on October 16, 2013 by David Hume

This is not the time to be talking about Left-Right alliances. I know. But this piece by Kevin Drum got my attention. He’s responding to the fact that asthma inhalers are very expensive because of the way pharmaceutical companies have … Continue reading →

Posted in Medicine | Tagged | 6 Comments

Western = human?

Posted on September 17, 2013 by David Hume

There are occasions where I don’t even understand what universe the academic cultural Left is inhabiting. Their utilization of plain and simple terms in bizarre fashions makes implicit the reality that their factual universe is radically different from mine. AFP … Continue reading →

Posted in culture | Tagged , | 8 Comments

Why I am on the Right, part 1,356,446

Posted on September 7, 2013 by David Hume

It’s time for science fiction to face up to discrimination: The author Jim C Hines sparked a conversation on Twitter after posting a picture of the all-white past, present and future chairs of WorldCon and coining the hashtag #DiversityinSFF. As … Continue reading →

Posted in culture | Tagged | 5 Comments