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Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading 0
- Science
- September 25, 2020
In a year where scientists seemed to have gotten everything wrong, a book attempting to explain why is bizarrely relevant. Of course, science was in deep trouble long before the pandemic began and Stuart Ritchie’s excellent Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth had been long in the making.
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Breonna Taylor Riots and More Irresponsible Rhetoric 0
- Politics
- September 25, 2020
Two police officers have been shot in Louisville as mobs ransacked local businesses. The mob did not get the murder charge they wanted and now are taking things into their own hands. Unfortunately, even organizations such as the NAACP are continuing to allege that Taylor was murdered by the police. They will not accept a
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The Case of the Silent Voter 0
- History
- September 25, 2020
By now you may have heard of the silent voter. The silent voter is nothing new. The New York Times identified this phenomenon way back in November of 1886, describing it as “the vote which helps make what are called tidal waves in politics.” In more recent years, the silent voter seems to reside in
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Garden or Graveyard: What Will Be Our Legacy?0
- Literature
- September 25, 2020
This morning I came across the following quote by Ray Bradbury while looking for his observation: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Bradbury says: Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a
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Women Are Not OK 0
- Culture
- September 24, 2020
I try not to watch videos that extremely socially maladjusted people have recorded of themselves crying in their cars. They seem to go viral too often. And too often, the subjects are women: women who earnestly believe that abortion is fundamental to female flourishing. Women whose nature has been thwarted, disassembled, and denied by a
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Twenty Lessons From 2020’s Fallout 0
- Economics
- September 24, 2020
This year has been a shock. Here is an early sketch of what I think I’ve learned. Governments are fully capable of doing the unthinkable, and doing so suddenly with no exit plan, little consideration of cost, and a callous disregard for individual rights. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are largely irrelevant when
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