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AUTHOR EXPERIENCES
- BLOG: My Long Silence, January 5, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
AUTONOMY & INDIVIDUALISM
- BLOG: My Long Silence, January 5, 2015
- BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
- BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- BLOG: Let’s hear it! Three tears for equality!, March 7, 2016
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, by Louis Dumont
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: Hypermodern Times, by Gilles Lipovetsky
- REVIEW: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
- REVIEW: The Malaise Of Modernity, by Charles Taylor
BIOGRAPHIES
CIVILIZATION
- BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
- BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
- BLOG: The light, the power, the glory: kids. But can they save us?, March 5, 2018
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 3: Has social change made the US Constitution obsolete?, January 7, 2019
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
- REVIEW: Before Philosophy, by Henri Frankfort, John A. Wilson, & Thorkild Jacobsen
- REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, BY Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: The Emergence of Agriculture, by Bruce D. Smith
- REVIEW: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism, by Peter Gay
- REVIEW: Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, by Louis Dumont
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Anonymous & N.K. Sandars translator
- REVIEW: The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson
- REVIEW: Hypermodern Times, by Gilles Lipovetsky
- REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- REVIEW: The Malaise Of Modernity, by Charles Taylor
- REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
- REVIEW: Natural Law: Reflections On Theory Practice, by Jacques Maritain
- REVIEW: Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, by Spencer Wells
- REVIEW: The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
- REVIEW: Society in Prehistory: The Origins of Human Culture, by Tim Megarry
- REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
COMMUNITY & TRADITION
- BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: Community and Tradition: Conservative Perspectives on the American Experience, by George W. Carey & Bruce Frohnen
- REVIEW: The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community, by Stephen A. Marglin
- REVIEW: Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, by Louis Dumont
- REVIEW: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, by Aldo Leopold
- REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
CONSERVATIVISM, CLASSICAL & MODERN
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: Icarus Fallen: Search For Meaning In An Uncertain World, by Chantal Delsol
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
- REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
CREATIONISM
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: The light, the power, the glory: kids. But can they save us?, March 5, 2018
- REVIEW: Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West
- REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, by Hugh Ross
CHRISTIANITY
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- REVIEW: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism, by Karen Armstrong
- REVIEW: Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels
- REVIEW: The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, by Hugh Ross
- REVIEW: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, by Robert L. Wilken
- REVIEW: Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John G. West
- REVIEW: Made for More, by Curtis Martin
- REVIEW: The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics, by Elaine Pagles
- REVIEW: Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion, by John C. Polkinghorne
CULTURE WARS
- BLOG: Revenge politics: America’s Culture Wars just get hotter, January 2, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism, by David Stove
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, by Hugh Ross
- REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, BY Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, by Philippe Bénéton
- REVIEW: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, by Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont
- REVIEW: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, by Sandra Lee Bartky
- REVIEW: Icarus Fallen: Search For Meaning In An Uncertain World, by Chantal Delsol
- REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
- REVIEW: Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy, by Thomas L. Pangle
- REVIEW: The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History, by Lawrence W. Levine
- REVIEW: The Science Question in Feminism, by Sandra G. Harding
- REVIEW: The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses, by Alan Charles Kors & Harvey A. Silverglate
- REVIEW: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
CURRENT EVENTS & ISSUES
- BLOG: Revenge politics: America’s Culture Wars just get hotter, January 2, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
- BLOG: After five years, my second novel is complete. What I wish I hadn’t learned:, November 4, 2019
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
- BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, BY Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
DEMOCRACY
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
- REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: Democracy in America: Specially Edited and Abridged for the Modern Reader, by Alexis de Tocqueville
- REVIEW: Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, by Mary Ann Glendon
- REVIEW: The Spirit of American Government, by James Allen Smith
- REVIEW: A Student's Guide To American Political Thought, by George W. Carey
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
ECONOMICS
FICTION
GLOBAL WARMING
HISTORY
- BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
- REVIEW: Before Philosophy, by Henri Frankfort, John A. Wilson, & Thorkild Jacobsen
- REVIEW: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, by Robert L. Wilken
- REVIEW: The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, by D. Bruce Dickson
- REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
- REVIEW: The Emergence of Agriculture, by Bruce D. Smith
- REVIEW: A History of Philosophy 1-3, by Frederick Charles Copleston
- REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
- REVIEW: The Lessons of History, by Will Durant & Ariel Durant
- REVIEW: From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology, by Louis Dumont
- REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
- REVIEW: The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn
- REVIEW: Society in Prehistory: The Origins of Human Culture, by Tim Megarry
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- REVIEW: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham
- REVIEW: The Wisdom of History, by J. Rufus Fears
HUMAN EVOLUTION
LIBERALISM, CLASSICAL & MODERN
- BLOG: Let’s hear it! Three tears for equality!, March 7, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
- REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, BY Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, by Philippe Bénéton
- REVIEW: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, by Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont
- REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
- REVIEW: Liberals on Liberalism, by Alfonso J. Damico Ed.
- REVIEW: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
- REVIEW: The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History, by Lawrence W. Levine
- REVIEW: The Science Question in Feminism, by Sandra G. Harding
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner
MEANING OR PURPOSE?
- BLOG: My Long Silence, January 5, 2015
- BLOG: Why we are the way we are – some groundwork, March 2, 2015
- BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
- BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
- BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
- BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: The Meaning of Human Existence, by Edward O. Wilson
MORALITY & ETHICS
- BLOG: Why we are the way we are – some groundwork, March 2, 2015
- BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
- BLOG: Mount Economics: It Wasn’t Always So Tall, July 6, 2015
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- REVIEW: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
MYTHOLOGY
NATURE
PHILOSOPHY
- BLOG: Why we are the way we are – some groundwork, March 2, 2015
- BLOG: Philosophic Foundations – What Defines “Human”?, May 4, 2015
- BLOG: Cerebral Birth Pangs, September 7, 2015
- BLOG: Work ‘til you drop – the fruit of independence, November 2, 2015
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 1: Did the Founders get it wrong?, July 2, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution Part 4: Rousseau’s enduring rebuke of Enlightenment governance, March 4, 2019
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 5: Utilitarians vs. the Founders. Who was right?, July 1, 2019
- REVIEW: The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
- REVIEW: Before Philosophy, by Henri Frankfort, John A. Wilson, & Thorkild Jacobsen
- REVIEW: Confronting The Constitution, by Allan Bloom
- REVIEW: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism, by Peter Gay
- REVIEW: A History of Philosophy 1-3, by Frederick Charles Copleston
- REVIEW: Icarus Fallen: Search For Meaning In An Uncertain World, by Chantal Delsol
- REVIEW: Liberals on Liberalism, by Alfonso J. Damico Ed.
- REVIEW: Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, by Mark T, Mitchell
- REVIEW: Natural Law: Reflections On Theory Practice, by Jacques Maritain
- REVIEW: No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life, by Robert C. Solomon
- REVIEW: On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence, by Peter Atkins
- REVIEW: Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion, by John C. Polkinghorne
- REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
POLITICS
- BLOG: Let’s hear it! Three tears for equality!, March 7, 2016
- BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
- BLOG: Murray Rothbard’s strange and zany world, September 5, 2016
- BLOG: Revenge politics: America’s Culture Wars just get hotter, January 2, 2017
- BLOG: Shermer vs. Delsol, Liberation or Dispossession?, May 1, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- BLOG: What is “truth” in America’s post-truth fog, and how can we find it?, December 12, 2019
- BLOG: Our Dear (mafia) Leader, December 24, 2019
- BLOG: America is asking, “Are Trump and his Party, traitors?”, January 6, 2020
- REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
- REVIEW: The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson
- REVIEW: Liberals on Liberalism, by Alfonso J. Damico Ed.
- REVIEW: Natural Law: Reflections On Theory Practice, by Jacques Maritain
- REVIEW: The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn
- REVIEW: Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, by Mary Ann Glendon
- REVIEW: The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
- REVIEW: The Spirit of American Government, by James Allen Smith
- REVIEW: Shakespeare's Politics, by Allan Bloom & Harry V. Jaffa
- REVIEW: A Student's Guide To American Political Thought, by George W. Carey
- REVIEW: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
- REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen
POSTMODERNISM
- REVIEW: Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism, by David Stove
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, BY Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- REVIEW: Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, by Philippe Bénéton
- REVIEW: Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, by Sandra Lee Bartky
- REVIEW: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, by Keith Windschuttle
- REVIEW: The Science Question in Feminism, by Sandra G. Harding
- REVIEW: The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses, by Alan Charles Kors & Harvey A. Silverglate
- REVIEW: Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner
PSYCOLOGY
- BLOG: Hedonistic hairsplitting and scientific certainty, January 4, 2016:
- BLOG: Is PCD an acronym for Programmed Civilization Death?, November 7, 2016
- BLOG: I just can’t shake that dual nature thing, July 3, 2017
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: Down in the dark, beneath the American psyche, some of it’s not so bad, November 6, 2017
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018:
- BLOG: Confronting the Constitution. Part 2: Government of, by, and for unstable humans, September 3, 2018
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
- REVIEW: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
- REVIEW: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
- REVIEW: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
RELIGION
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- BLOG: The Collapse of American Christianity, January 18, 2020
- REVIEW: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism, by Karen Armstrong
- REVIEW: Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels
- REVIEW: The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, by D. Bruce Dickson
- REVIEW: The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion, by Marcel Gauchet
- REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- REVIEW: The Lonely Man of Faith, by Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- REVIEW: Made for More, by Curtis Martin
- REVIEW: The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics, by Elaine Pagles
- REVIEW: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
- REVIEW: Tradition: Concept and Claim, by Josef Pieper
SCIENCE & TECH
- BLOG: Enlightenment, we owe you, but do those non-believers you made have a future?, May 2, 2016
- BLOG: A little good news about Western instability, July 4, 2016
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter. Part I: The Right, March 6, 2017
- BLOG: Why America’s anti-science movement is a moral matter: Part II, The Left, January 1, 2018
- BLOG: The light, the power, the glory: kids. But can they save us?, March 5, 2018
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: Notre Dame, and the religious experience in science, May 6, 2019
- REVIEW: Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 73: Lasers, Molecules, and Methods, by Joseph O. Hirschfelder
- REVIEW: Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness, by Ian Tattersall
- REVIEW: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010, by Freeman Dyson Ed. & Tim Folger Ed.
- REVIEW: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution, by Maitland Armstrong Edey & Donald C. Johanson
- REVIEW: Carbon Nano Forms and Applications, by Maheshwar Sharon
- REVIEW: Catalysis: An Integrated Approach, Volume 123, by R.A. Van Santen Ed. et. al.
- REVIEW: Catalysis by Metals: Course Held in Les Houches, 19-29 March 1996, by Albert-Jean Renouprez Ed. & Hervé Jobic Ed.
- REVIEW: Coherent Radar Performance Estimation, by James A. Scheer Ed.
- REVIEW: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
- REVIEW: Electromagnetic Principles Of Integrated Optics, by Donald L. Lee
- REVIEW: Elementary Modern Physics, by Richard T. Weidner & Robert L. Sells
- REVIEW: Elementary Quantum Mechanics, by David S. Saxon
- REVIEW: Information Transmission, Modulation, and Noise: A Unified Approach to Communication Systems, by Mischa Schwartz
- REVIEW: Introduction to Airborne Radar, by George W. Stimson
- REVIEW: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 3rd Ed., by David J. Griffiths, by David J. Griffiths
- REVIEW: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- REVIEW: Laser Control and Manipulation of Molecules, by A.D. Bandrauk Ed.
- REVIEW: Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structureinfrared and Raman Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules Volume 2, by Gerhard Herzberg
- REVIEW: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, by Michael Shermer
- REVIEW: Nonlinear Laser Chemistry: Multiple-Photon Excitation, by V.S. Letokhov
- REVIEW: On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence, by Peter Atkins
- REVIEW: Optical Control of Molecular Dynamics, by Stuart A. Rice
- REVIEW: Optics, by Eugene Hecht
- REVIEW: Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, by Spencer Wells
- REVIEW: Physical Chemistry, by Peter Atkins & Julio de Paula
- REVIEW: Quarks, Chaos & Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion, by John C. Polkinghorne
- REVIEW: Sex and the Origins of Death, by William R. Clark
- REVIEW: At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity, by William R. Clark
TOTALITARIANISM
- BLOG: Has America become a nation of liars?, September 4, 2017
- BLOG: America could never become a totalitarian State... Right?, May 7, 2018
- BLOG: The betrayal of Christ: global warming denial, November 5, 2018
- BLOG: My Long Silence, December 2, 2019
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