“If we are the end product of so many years of time acting on matter as governed by chance, then we have no reason to believe any of our thoughts to be true. Our current thoughts, whatever they are, are the simple behavior exhibited by these chemicals under these conditions and … [Read more...]
God’s Little Reductio on Pluralism
Introduction A few days ago I published a post on the French/Ahmari scuffle, in the course which I called on National Review to confess the name of Jesus. That post can be found here, and I am grateful to Andrew Sandlin for his response to my piece, which can be found here. … [Read more...]
Standing on Air
“Either first principles are axiomatic and self-evident, or there are no principles at all anywhere, including the nihilistic principle that there are no principles” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 82). … [Read more...]
Letters from the Kind of People Who Write Letters
Open Carry or No? My wife and I can’t agree but it looks like you’re sporting a sidearm in your Twitter banner photo. That’s all. Jordan Jordan, I have a sidearm, but that fact cannot be ascertained from that photo. On Arrogance and Humility Challenging and … [Read more...]
More Than Difficult
“Autonomous and humanistic epistemology is the ultimate exercise in picking yourself up by your own coat collar, lifting yourself by your own bootstraps, or standing in a bucket in order to carry yourself upstairs” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 82). … [Read more...]
The Outrage of Leggings as Tip of the Iceberg
Introduction and a Short List I thought to use this space to inveigh against mixed metaphors, but also thought that some of my adversaries might charge me with a hypocritical inconsistency. So let me try a few other things out on you. I believe the vast majority of … [Read more...]
Mastering the Nuances
Arrogance and Humility: Worlds in Collision.
Introduction: As we are engaged together in the endeavor of building an alternative school system, one natural question arises. Alternative to what? How can we be counter-cultural without knowing what culture we are countering, and what kind of culture we are countering … [Read more...]
The Content Cluster Muster (6.13.19)
A Worthwhile Article Why men are to be good, not safe. More here. Another Worthwhile Article https://twitter.com/NickWolfinger/status/1138135937806848008 A Different Sort of Open Road Just So We're … [Read more...]
Platt, Trump, Falwell and Maybe Some Others
Sorry to be late to this particular party, but this is one hopping circus, and it is hard to keep track of all the trapeze artists. I mean, some go this way while the others are going that way. So what happened was this. I summarize, and do so with the need for brevity in … [Read more...]
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