Just a note that comments that are uncivil—calling names and insulting for instance—will get you ignored, banned and your rudeness removed. If you can’t be civil go someplace else.
Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso, associate professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, defined intellectual humility as a “nonthreatening awareness of one’s intellectual fallibility.”
The benefit of such humility is “people who realize and accept that their knowledge is not perfect will be more likely to discover biases and errors in their thinking, consider…
Attempts to justify on economic grounds the policy of restricting immigration are therefore doomed from the outset. There cannot be the slightest doubt that migration barriers diminish the productivity of human labor.
Ludwig Mises • 1881–1973
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be…
Most Americans have never heard of the Daily Mail newspaper. It’s a sensationalistic British rag with a sordid history, including being pro Hitler and pro Mussolini in the 1930s. The publication runs an on-line site trying to capture viewers in America, where they routinely misspell words or have convoluted headlines…
One claim repeatedly made by more moderate evangelicals is Trump and the Republican Party corrupted evangelicalism. That is a very convenient way of ignoring the fact that evangelicals went after the GOP and corrupted it. Trump was the result of evangelical control of the GOP, not the cause of a…
When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared, both theoretically and practically. They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power, such disregard for the rights of the weak, or such yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of…
On May 26th Professor Abigail Marsh wrote in the New York Times about a new study of the impact of individualism on various countries. What researchers found surprised many anti-individualists but I can’t say it surprised me. In substance it said something I’ve been hammering on for some time now…
One of the odd spectacles in current American “conservative” circles is seeing mental zombies justifying their contempt for science and medicine by chanting, “my body, my choice.” …
