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The Long View 2006-10-03: Religious Studies; Humans versus Homo Sapiens

This is perhaps the most profound thing John J. Reilly ever said: kindshave I I ponder this all the time, and the critical distinction he makes here just gets better with age. Clear terms enable clear thinking. Religious Studies; Humans versus Homo Sapiens Your degree in Religious Studies is not

The Long View: The Interior Castle

This luminous review of St. Teresa's The Interior Castle finally brings me full circle, back to the mysteries of human experience, and the unity of mystical experience across religions. The Interior Castle By St. Teresa of Avila Translated by: The Monks of Stanbrook, 1911 Spanish Original: Published Circa

The Long View: Neocons, Theocons and the Cycles of American History

Neocons go back to James Q. Wilson or possibly the Coleman Report. They represented the wing of American liberalism appalled by the Sixties and the radial Left of that era. Neocons, Theocons and the Cycles of American History “...[T]he full story of [the generation that came of age around

The Long View 2005-05-05: British Elections; Multiple Horrors; Theodicy

I have a pending book review on Tim Powers' Earthquake Weather where I will claim that Powers wrote a theodicy. British Elections; Multiple Horrors; Theodicy By the time you read this, we will probably already know whether a Labor government has been returned in the UK, and more specifically,

The Long View: Is Mathematics Constitutional?

A recent popular [well, as popular as a massive book full of equations can be] exposition of mathematical Platonism is Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality. It even has practice problems in it with devoted communities of amateurs trading tips on how to solve them. Mathematical Platonism, or

The Long View: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

The kind of thing that John Reilly laments in this book review is alive and well. If you want a taste of it, check out New Real Peer Review on Twitter, which simply reprints abstracts of actual, peer-reviewed articles. A favorite genre is the autoethnography. Go look for yourself, no

Organelle Transplant

Yesterday on Twitter, Razib Khan remarked that he hadn't realized pro-life Christians relate genetics to souls. had a conversation about 'three parent babies' yesterday. i realized i don't know how christians relate genetics to souls?March 19, 2017 Since I wasn't party