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Author Archives: David Hume
Learning what we already knew
Forbes has a piece up, America’s Healthiest And Unhealthiest States. But you could predict the list from Albion’s Seed. Sometimes things never change….
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Tagged demographics, history, history - American
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Darwinian & Postmodern Conservatism
At Culture11 Ivan Kenneally asks, Is Darwinian Conservatism Postmodern?: Larry Arnhart is surely the best proponent of Darwinian Conservatism, and not just because he has a blog with the same name. In his view, an evolutionary biological account of nature properly … Continue reading
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Using the General Social Survey interface
My post, Who prays more, Democrats or Republicans?, has gotten a little link love. First at Daily Dish, and later at Kevin Drum. That’s great; in fact, a fair number of my GSS based charts get picked up around the … Continue reading
Great American history book recommendations
This is a thread for suggestions. I’m looking here for works which focus on social & economic changes, as opposed to personal biography and diplomatic history. The latter was important, but my personal impression is that they’re easy to bone … Continue reading
The fall of the first republic?
I’m reading Sean Wilentz’s The Rise of American Democracy. I’m only about 1/4 of the way through, so on page 200 or so. I’m not surprised by the narrative so far, the rise of mass democratic populism and the fading … Continue reading
Mozi vs. the Confucians
From Wikipedia on the bête noire of the Confucians, Mozi: …Though Mozi did not believe that history necessarily progresses, as did Han Fei Zi, he shared the latter’s critique of fate (?, mìng). Mozi believed that people were capable of changing … Continue reading
Who prays more, Democrats or Republicans?
Heather’s post about Democratic prayers for the bailout made me wonder about differences between the parties. The photos in the article show a black church, so I was skeptical that Democrats prayed as much as Republicans overall. I looked at … Continue reading
Who reads the Secular Right?
This website has been around for a little over 2 weeks, and it’s already attracted a lot of attention. So I thought it might be fun to take the pulse of the readership with a few poll questions….
The wages of reason
Just to be clear, I support the program of experimental philosophy. Some of the arguments on this weblog have seen me be extremely dismissive of reason. If one is not ambitious, and keeps the chain of propositions suitably modest, there … Continue reading