Kudos to our geeky President for delivering this clever line while presenting his ” Educate to Innovate ” campaign, which aims to promote the development of student inventors: As President, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I want to . . . . Continue Reading »
In the year 3000, music historians are still talking about the four lads from Linverton—John Lennon, Paul MacKenzie, Greg Hutchinson, and Scottie Pippen. (I sometimes wonder if our views about the other Fab Four (Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Aristotle, and Plato) aren’t similar skewed by the . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m Sick and Tired of Lewis and ChestertonTwice in the past week, I thought I’d said something relatively clever only to have someone say, “It’s funny that you say that: I was reading something that C. S. Lewis wrote about that very idea not long ago . . . .” If . . . . Continue Reading »
A myth is a story so deeply moving and true that it shapes the rest of your life. When I was in seventh grade, I found a copy of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in the Rochester Christian School library. On the bus ride home, I started reading it and knew from the first page that my life would . . . . Continue Reading »
I loathe the tactic of hacking and publishing, whether in support of a side I am on or not. It seems to me that such Nixonian tactics—as I wrote here—destroy the comity necessary for democracy to function. (Yes, I am aware of the NYT’s hypocrisy on this matter, but what does . . . . Continue Reading »
More details are coming out about the Rom Houben case. This struck me hard. From the story:Belgian doctors who treated him early on said that Rom had gone from a coma into a vegetative condition. Coma is a state of unconsciousness in which the eyes are closed and the patient can’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the New Atlantis, I have a brief editorial on the Climate email scandal that just erupted a few days ago. The emails just recently made public are not just illuminating with respect to the scientific intergrity of this particular group of scientists, or the general scientific legitimacy of . . . . Continue Reading »
“There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; . . . . Continue Reading »
A colleague offered me the following piece of correspondence from the Financial Times. It is a letter written by Dr. Gautam Pingle, who serves as a dean with the College of India. He writes:Sir,[unimportant first para deleted] Intolerance bred by the monotheism of the People of the Book . . . . Continue Reading »
Edward Skidelsky in Prospect Magazine writes about words that think for us : No words are more typical of our moral culture than “inappropriate” and “unacceptable.” They seem bland, gentle even, yet they carry the full force of official power. When you hear them, you feel that . . . . Continue Reading »
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