Wednesday, April 3, 2013

In my beginning is my end

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From T.S. Eliot in the quartet poem, East Coker. In my beginning is my end It seems that the sought chalice of modern classical liberalism ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Not just worthless but dramatically misleading

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Interesting. Rasmussen Reports, a highly reputable polling organization released a report this Easter weekend, 64% Believe Jesus Christ Ro...

Slavery and comparative advantage

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From Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson. Page 57. A fascinating yet troubling hypothesis. Comparat...

Nowhere in the world, though, have I ever encountered a more brutal, tribal and violent race of people than the Scots-Irish

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I have just finished Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals . Probably a needlessly provocative title. As usual with Sowell...

Reading by the numbers

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From Jordan Weissmann, The Simple Reason Why Goodreads Is So Valuable to Amazon . He references research from the Codex Group who are the s...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Trying to study a tiny minority with a random sample--even a large one--is very difficult, and maybe impossible

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From Can Gay Marriage Solve Our Adoption Problem? by Megan McArdle. There are so many things we want to be true and from a man in the stre...

We had the experience but missed the meaning

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From T.S. Eliot in the Quartet poem, The Dry Salvages. We had the experience but missed the meaning
Sunday, March 31, 2013

About 7,500 generations have passed since our ancestors lived on the savannas of eastern Africa

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Though just a little dated at this point, I did enjoy Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson which I have...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence

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David Hume in Treatise of Human Nature . In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remark’d, that the auth...

It is a premise of science, not a finding.

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From The Heretic: Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him? by Andrew Ferguson Materialism, then, is ...