I got a good chuckle over Ross Douthat's assertion that philosophy departments have been "purged" of moralists and metaphysicians, and his various attempts to salvage this bizarre hypothesis, including anassertion that the rise of high-falutin "theory" in literary studies, an emphasis on primary source research...
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Jeez. When I suggested that Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit might be an important book for our times, I must say it was not in anticipation of something like this. The booking is certainly.
If you're a fan of bad things happening to people who really, really deserve it, take heart in the recent arrest of white supremicist and all-around scumbag Keith Gilbert for.
Q: How does a man with a B.A. in Economics and no apparent scientific expertise go about demonstrating the lack of reliability of a well-established scientific consensus? The Poor Man has the answer! Hint: The idea for this technique came to him when he noticed how...
Scott's got an excellent suggestion for a serious blogging topic for me below, so what do I do? In a moment of temporary insanity and inexplicable self-abuse, I follow a.
A commenter in the post immediately below reminds us of a great Wodehouse line; perhaps the harshest condemnation the mild-mannered Bertie ever directs at an interlocutor to his face. If.
I see in the Seattle Times today that the courts have failed to throw out Rossi's legal challenge to the gubernatorial election, thus giving him the green light to continue the self-immolation of his once promising political career. He now must go to court to prove...
Our favorite Stalinist film critic and writer of the book David Horowitz has already written several times has an informative website. You know you're in for some good stuff when.
James Wolcott says what needs to be said with his trademark aplomb about everyone's favorite right-wing Stalinist film critic, Michael "I can't for the life of me imagine why people prefer.
A catalog from Princeton University Press arrived in my box today. I pass along without comment a book publication announcement: On Bullshit Harry G. Frankfurt One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of...
The Bonassus, Daniel Geffen, actually turns to the research.... a) Adjust your policies to be more like the other (more successful) party's? b) Stick to your guns and maintain the same.
Rob and Scott have been doing just fine without me during my unplanned blogging sabbatical, to the extent that the vast majority of you probably hadn't noticed. At any rate,.