I am delighted to announce that my new book Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy is now available for pre-order from Creed & Culture.
Query:
Doubtlessly you’ve received other emails already since the events that took place around Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but I know no other place to ask for guidance so I must ask.
In your living memory, has the United States political climate after World War II ever been this bad?
Recently I read a news story purporting to give the results of a statistical study of the politically motivated violence in recent generations. I am resisting the temptation to comment on the timing.
During the past few weeks, a great many pundits have commented on Democratic Senator Tim Kaine’s bizarre remarks in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 4th, but although most of his critics make good points, they are missing one of the most important.
Query:
Some people blur the distinction between mental illness and moral wrong by ascribing certain behaviors to mental illness when they are in fact simply evil acts. Have you ever addressed this interesting topic?
Today’s post concerns the nature of logic. It will bore some readers, interest others, and fascinate a few. Read on to find out which kind you are.
Aristotle famously distinguished between theoretical syllogisms (which describe how we consider what is the case) and practical syllogisms (which describe how we decide what to do).
In some states and countries, legislators have moved to criminalize misgendering – that is, calling people by their biological sexes instead of the sexes they say they are.
What a blow for equality! But why stop there? Why do we stigmatize misgendering, and yet turn a blind eye to misspeciesing?