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I'm a philosophy professor at the University of Lethbridge in Southern Alberta, Canada. I specialize in philosophy of war, game theory, contractarianism, and theodicy (the Problem of Evil). I am bald, fat, and ugly, but my wife loves me, so I don't care.

• RIGHTS-TALK AND THE CURRENT PROPAGANDA WAR

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 25, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Depending on when you start counting – and depending on who’s doing the counting – Jews and Arabs have been at war in Palestine since the first implementation of the Balfour Declaration in the early 1920’s, or since the Naqba… Read More ›

• RIGHTEOUS KILLING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 23, 2024 • ( 1 )

  Most of us draw the distinction – and thankfully the law does too – between celebrating an illegal act and advocating one, and then between advocating one and inciting one. For example, I’ve made no secret that I thought 9/11… Read More ›

• IT’S CLEARLY THE JEWS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 18, 2024 • ( 1 )

  I have a colleague – okay, he was a colleague, but neither of us works there anymore – who believes that nothing is what it seems. Well no, because if nothing is what it seems, that would have to include… Read More ›

• TWO MILDLY BIGOTED COMPLAINTS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on March 3, 2024 • ( 4 )

  I started this blog off a number of years ago with a series of curmudgeon-isms, and embarrassed though I am to return to that theme, last week leaves me no choice. My first complaint is the indecipherability of public address… Read More ›

• OF BIGOTRY AND CONSERVATISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on February 12, 2024 • ( 1 )

  Some people think there are too many people in the world. Others think they’re just not properly distributed. That is, too much food is where the locals don’t need it, and too little of it is where the locals do…. Read More ›

• THE TOWER OF BABEL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on February 8, 2024 • ( 2 )

  Worrying about exactly how many Israelis were killed on October 7, or exactly how many Palestinians have been killed since, is a bit like debating whether the Holocaust killed six million, seven, or only five. Let’s just say that ’39… Read More ›

• TRUTH AND CODDLING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on February 1, 2024 • ( 3 )

  For the past decade or so, there’s been a movement among woke faculty and administrators to do away with the pursuit of truth full stop as the raison d’être of the academy, and to do so under the guise of… Read More ›

• INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 30, 2024 • ( 1 )

  There was a time … But was there? Was there ever a time when universities were ideology-neutral, save for that minimal set of commitments required for universities to perform their function? Thinking there was is a bit like Trump wanting… Read More ›

• SUPREMACY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 29, 2024 • ( 1 )

  I’ve always had trouble with the concept of supremacy. I think I understand it when it’s used aspirationally. I’m hoping that the Chiefs best the 49-ers in the upcoming Superbowl. Or predictively. I’m betting that the Chiefs best the 49-ers…. Read More ›

• ATROCITY VS HISTORY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on January 29, 2024 • ( 0 )

  When it happened a long time ago it’s called history. When it happened a shorter time ago, or it’s happening today, it’s called an atrocity. Think about what it was like to be an Amalekite. Fast forward to the Viking… Read More ›