Australia tour, March 2020
Advance information here at the True Arrow Events site: My themes will be emphasizing the positive and solutions: What comes after postmodernism?
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Science journalism for non-experts on the climate change issue
I understand: (1) Climate is not weather, except when it is. (2) Global warming means milder winters but also harsher winters. Far from expert on the issue, but can USA Today please up its science-journalism game? The video accompanying this article promises to explain why “Climate change is making winters colder despite rising temperatures and
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Should racists get medical care?
* An angry atheist shows up at a Catholic hospital needing treatment. * A sexist says he prefers not to have a woman doctor. * A surgeon realizes that his patient is a suspected pedophile. Medical ethics for professionals: Does one treat even blasphemers, misogynists, and perverts to the best of one’s abilities? And the
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Wm. James on socialism and slavery
“I devoutly believe,” the philosopher William James said, “in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium.” What does that require of us as citizens? That we feel “conscious of our work as an obligatory service to the state. We should be owned, as soldiers are by the army …” [emphasis in the original].
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Pope lecture at Clemson University: Postmodernism’s Critique of Liberal Education
I will be giving a public talk entitled “The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education” on October 30 at Clemson University, South Carolina. A description of the talk and location information are in this pdf flyer for the event. My lecture is part of the John W. Pope lecture series, which in the past has featured
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More ejecting students for wrong opinions
In olden times, the headline would be: “Religious Professor Ejects Student for Stating There Is Only One, Natural World.” Now we get: Feminist Professor Ejects Student from Class for Stating There are Only Two Genders Such progress.
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On falling in love with philosophy — quotation from Plato
“The young man who has drunk for the first time from that spring is as happy as if he had found a treasure of wisdom; he is positively enraptured. He will pick up any discourse, draw all its ideas together to make them into one, then take them apart and pull them to pieces. He
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