Friday, December 17, 2021

Standardized tests to get IN to college? Standardized tests INSTEAD of college.

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More and more universities are waiving standardized test requirements for admission on the grunds that there are racial achievement gaps in ...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Bringing morality into politics?

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To a friend who was looking for answers when students asked him about legislating morality and bringing religion into politics: As far as ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Enchantment and Morality

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Atheism advocates a disenchanted world, but morality itself is a kind of enchantment. For instance, atheistic materialism disenchants humani...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Disrupting Higher Education with Assessment

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As someone who believes there is quite a bit of corruption, sclerosis, and waste in higher education, I welcome the announcement of the crea...
Monday, November 1, 2021

The Virgin Birth, the Male Birth

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Yet more evidence that the New Woke Orthodoxy is a religion that replaced the old Christian orthodoxy: they both require belief in immaculat...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Hard writing means easy reading

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The easier something is to read the harder it was to write. This is counterintuitive. We assume easy reading means easy writing, but the opp...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Smoking and Socialism

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The arguments for socialism are like arguments for smoking—they depend on anecdotes. There’s the person who just started smoking who is none...