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

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…