The Year in Review: 2020, was “Mostly Peaceful” [sic]
2020 will be remembered as the year that was “mostly peaceful” – meaning, it was anything but. Indeed, the phrase “mostly peaceful” – followed closely…
Medicine
Consciousness: What is it, and Where is it Found?
It is a common-place assumption that brains generate consciousness. The fact that brain damage, drug use, sleep deprivation, etc., impair thinking seems to confirm the brain’s generative capacity….
2016 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
The failure of Utopian Europe The great advantage of seeing things from afar is that the whole can be appreciated without the observer being distracted…
2016 Symposium – Valdis Grinsteins
El Fracaso de la Europa Utopista. La gran ventaja de ver las cosas de lejos es que fácilmente observamos el conjunto y no nos distraemos…
Quote of the Week: Robert R. Reilly, “Making Gay Okay”
“There are two fundamentally different conceptions of science – one that is scientific and one that is not. In the first, science properly deals with…
Quote of the Week: Hilaire Belloc, “The Crisis of Civilization”
“Status arose from the strong, instinctive demand of a Catholic society for stable social relations between men, and, what was much more important, for a…
Quote of the Week: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, “Hagakure”
“According to a certain person, a number of years ago, the late Matsuguma Kyōan told this story: “In the practice of medicine there is a…
Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “In Praise of Prejudice”
“Rights expand to meet the egos of those for whom freedom is nothing but unconstrained action (The only good that deserves the name, says Mill,…