Can a computer program produce classical music compositions that rival the works of Bach or Mozart? Emmy was once the world’s most advanced artificially intelligent composer, and because he’d managed to breathe a sort of life into her, he became a modern-day musical Dr. Frankenstein. She . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve written before about the ClimateGate scandal here as symptomatic of technocratic elitism or the current trend to exhaust all political experience and judgment into the categories of modern science. In other words, the problem is unrestrained scientism , or the view that science has a . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Scully’s nasty review—and my reply thereto—continues to bounce around at National Review. Yesterday, over at The Corner, Jason Steorts wondered where we differed on principle, and offered an opportunity for both of us to clarify our positions. Scully . . . . Continue Reading »
One thing critics of ancient cultures often miss is how easy “freedom” and “liberty” were to achieve in the ancient world and how hard order was to maintain.One could curse the king easily in the ancient world with almost no chance the king would ever hear of it! Any society . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a brief response to my critics, mostly Frank Turk.I think the heart of our disagreement is the Bible and how to read it. I think the Bible is true and binding on a Christian. If it says a thing, we must do it.Sadly, reading a book is not as easy as one might think. The Bible was written to a . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, duh: A new study reports that sexual activity declines as people age, and that people over 70 generally retire from sex. From the story:The average person’s sex life ends by the age of 70, according to a report published today in the British Medical Journal. Men age 30 have . . . . Continue Reading »
The Dutch parliament is currently considering legislation that would allow assisted suicide for anyone who has reached the age of seventy and has merely grown tired of living. In today’s On the Square feature I trace the recent history of euthanasia in the Netherlands that lead the formerly . . . . Continue Reading »
Randy Michaels may be the CEO of the Tribune Company but its obvious that he’s an editor at heart. All editors have certain words and phrases they prohibit; being able to prevent writers (including oneself) from abusing the language is one of the perks of the job. But Michaels may have set a . . . . Continue Reading »
I am currently reading Carlos Eire’s A Very Brief History of Eternity (Princeton, 2009). Eire is the author of the memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2003, and a number of works of religious history, including From . . . . Continue Reading »
What follows is a brief piece I wrote some years ago which I have adapted for our purposes here. This is a follow-up on comments I made to John Mark Reynolds’ posts yesterday.It is generally acknowledged that the English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) had a considerable influence on the . . . . Continue Reading »
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