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Review of Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great. Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group, 2007. 307 pages, $24.99 Preamble: If you find...
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The Nexus between Language and Vico’s Historicism—Part 1
The study of language is the starting point of Vico’s historicism. For Vico, language is humanity’s primordial historicization. In...
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The Criterion of Simplicity
One of the principles governing the scientific description of the world is this—of different possible explanations of a phenomenon,...
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Brain, Mind, Soul, and Spirit—Unified in Personality
The brain is a physical organ that transcends the machine-like regularities of mechanics, and thereby reveals that...
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Sorry: That Big Dumb Powerful Word
A friend who once lived in England told me that the word sorry is used differently there, that it...
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Tariq Ramadan or Ayaan Hirsi Ali?
The Islamist question, in the forefront of European and American thinking, might be put this way: Should support go...
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Source of Theories
Murray Gell-Mann noted that “A successful new theoretical idea typically alters and extends the existing body of theory to...
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“dumb–almost cosmic stupidity”
I couldn’t agree more with this assessment by Glenn T. Miller, academic dean and professor of ecclesiastical history at...
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The Encounter with History as Extension of the Self—Part 2
It does indeed take about half of one’s lifetime before one becomes aware that our existential condition is, to...
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The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming
From the Center for American Progress, scary stuff. Among my favorites: Say Goodbye to Discoveries of Sharks That Can...