What is the Problem with Liberalism?
Contra my own lofty ideals that led me to delete my Facebook account, I found myself in a debate on Twitter the other day. The original post went as follows:…
Contra my own lofty ideals that led me to delete my Facebook account, I found myself in a debate on Twitter the other day. The original post went as follows:…
It's an interesting-enough question to ask 'why do people have hair on their heads, but not on the rest of their bodies?' Some have speculated that it has to do…
As a lover of arguments, there are few things more irritating than the kinds of arguments which shut down the conversation. Ad hominems are probably the most familiar variety of this…
It's not just a point of irony that feelings about Russia have flipped along party lines. Once upon a 20th-century, no one loved Russia more than the American left, who…
A number of more significant posts about religion I've made in the past year relating to Anwei, identity, and the various problems with Christianity, revolve around the conflict between identity…
I was reading a book written by my great-great grandfather a few days ago. It described (among other things) the account of his journey from Scotland to India in the…
The immortal Dankula, tamer of pugs, has given us probably the most comprehensive and entertaining presentation yet of the story of Marvin Heemeyer -- denizen of Colorado, victim of corporate…
The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919) By Rudyard Kipling As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of…
I think it may be worth a few minutes (but no more) to address the argument against more restrictive immigration which says that "X is a nation of immigrants." I…
In his excellent book Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb makes the point that Sargon has been making online for a few years: morality is about what you do not what…