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Dec 8, 2021

Neil Grossman writes,

Neil Grossman writes, Banning abortion essentially gives the state custody of a pregnant woman’s uterus. That’s not a politically correct way to put it, but it’s what a ban entails. Under such laws, if a woman gets pregnant, she loses the right to control what happens inside her body. If…

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May 6, 2021

AI/ML

Natural language processing is a confirmation of Searle’s Chinese room.

AI

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AI

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Nov 16, 2020

The Anecdotes of Pundits

Certain political pundits get caught up in a similar type of anecdotal fallacy. But it’s not the typical sort of anecdote, involving real-life interaction. It’s the anecdotal experience of the “very online” pundit who lets their Twitter or Facebook interactions color their perception of Christianity or Evangelicalism in the United…

Politics

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Politics

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Oct 6, 2020

Getting High Off Outrage

Andrew Klavan has a great line about anger being the devil’s cocaine. Among the various outrage addicts is the church-going evangelical who is always outraged by the latest thing said or done by the abstract, statistical evangelical — outrage over the average evangelical. We should never be complacent about sin…

Christianity

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Getting High Off Outrage
Getting High Off Outrage
Christianity

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Sep 27, 2020

An Alternative Deal For The Senate Regarding SCOTUS

Just a quick thought here. In 1 Corinthians 9 Paul mentions several rights that he and other apostles and ministers have, such as the right of financial support from those one ministers to. …

SCOTUS

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SCOTUS

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Sep 24, 2020

Pragmatism is for Suckers?

Jonah Goldberg, David French, and some others have suggested that Republicans should make a deal with Democrats in which Republicans don’t vote to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee in exchange for promises from a few reliable Democrats that they won’t pack the courts, make Puerto Rico and Washington DC a…

SCOTUS

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SCOTUS

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Sep 21, 2020

Transcendent Moral Purpose in Pluralism?

Consider a basic definition of pluralism provided by Google: a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist. The definition has an ambiguity in the term coexist insofar as it can be understood positively — as is intended in the “Coexist” bumper…

Pluralism

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Pluralism

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Sep 19, 2020

Hypocrisy and Ginsburg: Part 2

According to John Fund, from National Review, “Senator Ted Cruz told Fox News that it’s ‘critical’ a justice be confirmed before Nov. 3, in part because of the possibility of a ‘constitutional crisis’ if there were a 4–4 split over a disputed election outcome.” The responses to this line of…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Sep 19, 2020

Republican Hypocrisy and Ginsburg

Michelle Goldberg writes the following for the NYT: If Republicans force a justice on us, it’s because they believe that standards are for suckers, and people who hold power need not be constrained by any pledge or institutional tradition. This is probably going to be the most common argument we…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Sep 19, 2020

Hostage Politics

J. V. L. writes: If Trump and Senate Republicans are defeated in the election, but then try to replace Ginsburg before leaving office, the political retribution would be incalculable. The Democratic party would believe — with good reason — that there are no limits to majoritarian rule. Meanwhile there’s a…

SCOTUS

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Hostage Politics
Hostage Politics
SCOTUS

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