Descartes’ global dream argument predates The Matrix by almost half a millennium. Neither did Men in Black invent the conjecture that we’re in constant contact with creatures from other planets. That they’re fully visible. But they’re also very shy. And… Read More ›
Everything You Wanted to Know About What’s Going On in the World But Were Afraid to Ask
WHY IT’S A GOOD THING I CAN’T VOTE
The propaganda war isn’t over what we’re being exposed to. It’s over what we’re exposing ourselves to. So there’s a strong element of complicity in what we believe, be it about global warming, vaccination safety, Gaza, of what have you…. Read More ›
THE FOG OF WAR
I’m told – though this could be apocryphal – that more Indians were killed in all those Cowboys and Indians movies and TV shows than the number of Indians there ever were in the Wild West. The number of kills… Read More ›
RIGHTS-TALK AND THE CURRENT PROPAGANDA WAR
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
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
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 ›
OF BIGOTRY AND CONSERVATISM
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 ›
TRUTH AND CODDLING
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
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 ›
ATROCITY VS HISTORY
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 ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 