Showing posts with label Thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thought. Show all posts
Monday, January 22, 2018

Here's How Peterson Did It

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You know how well so many were delighted by Jordan Peterson's response to Cathy Newman last week. Well here is a wonderful analysis o...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

Equanimity?

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Equanimity. What's that? Yesterday I and some others were watching a racquetball match. I observed to a successful lawyer that one of ...
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Friday, March 27, 2015

Is Obama Sunni or Shia?

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I've been told that this is the question being asked all around the Middle East. I wonder what the answer will be?
Saturday, November 02, 2013

Fodder for Thought

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My friend Paul emailed me this questionnaire that has not simply multiple choice answers, but opportunities to offer deeper thoughts on the...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Man Thinks

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Those who would rule you want you lowered to a howling or frightened lumpen-herd. They want you never to think of bigger things, of complex ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

What Say You?

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"We are not voting ourselves out of this" is the line I am repeatedly reading. So what sort of solution do I think offers us any...
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Friday, December 02, 2011

Destroying Western Civ from Within

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While responding to Seneca III at Crusader Rabbit a couple of day ago, I expressed some relatively mild criticism of John Stuart Mill whe...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Two Followups

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First off, as a followup to Shock: ABC Consistently Inconsistent . Verum Serum posted a video Occupy San Diego Has A Moment of Solidarity fo...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Why Don't You Just Give Up Crusader?

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A couple of days ago, after I spotted a six year old boy with what looked like aging real tattoos, could I have been more disapproving of pa...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Restoring Rationality To Argument

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As I've been rereading CS Lewis' The Abolition of Man , I began to recognize how our Conditioners have removed rational thought from...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Wisdom and Antiwisdom

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The essay by Angelo Codevilla has captured the imagination of a great many. It occurred to me that slightly updating and republishing this ...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Ayn Rand Loved Titans, Not Mankind?

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Atlas Update: Web-searches suddenly hit here on May 21, 2011 -- Why ? Here’s a challenge for Randians. What Marx provided the Leftists, ...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

Partials

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1. Randians are Statist Dupes: On the same Belmont Club thread that prompted my post of yesterday, a fan of Ayn Rand opined less than grat...
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Sunday, December 06, 2009

Defend Your Right to Exist

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Nothing is more to be esteemed than aptness in discerning the true from the false. Other qualities of mind are of limited use, but preci...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

Resolved: Conservatives Are Useless As Defenders of Liberty

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The title of this post strikes me as a good premise for a debate. Spinelessness is not a good trait for those claiming to defend what is Rig...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Metamorphosis

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In Weapons Turned Inward , Wretchard observed how some left-leaning partisans see insanity in the internecine warfare that has erupted in th...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Something Eternally Undeniable

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There are many believers in God: the theist. There are many believers that God does not exist: the atheist. But one thing this agnostic does...
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Thursday, March 06, 2008

Ades to Corruption

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aide –noun 1. nurse's aide. 2. an aide-de-camp. 3. an assistant or helper, esp. a confidential one. -- from Dictionary.com Unabridg...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Help Me Defeat Leftist Social Engineers

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People generally do not like being manipulated. I believe that the more people understand how they and their neighbors are manipulated the b...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

A Progressive Rant

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I started to write a screed in July in response to a Belmont Club post, Definitions , entitled Those Hellbent On Leading Us Into A New Dark ...
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