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An Optimistic Hypothesis About Climate Skepticism
Governor Rick Perry thinks climate scientists have concocted the story of climate change in order to rake in gobs of money from government research grants. Representative Michele Bachmann thinks...
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Legal Formalism (A Refresher on Form)
O.K. for you law people, this will all be pretty familiar. For you non-law people, this is an acid challenge—a test of your tolerance for excruciatingly picayune legal exegesis. One bit of solace...
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Narcissistic Interpretation (Theory Moves)
Narcissistic Interpretation: [nahr-suh-sis-tik in-tur-pri-tey-shuhn] Noun Phrase A tendency to systematically misread the work of others in a way that confirms one’s world view or satisfies one’s...
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Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?
So reads the title of a recent opinion piece in the New York Times by Professor Eddy Nahmias. It warrants a bit of attention if not for its substance, then at least for what it illustrates about the...
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Gun Culture
Whatever the Second Amendment means, the problem for our society is that we have internalized the notion not only that we have the right to own guns, but we all should actually own one. The NRA’s...
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Facts (The)
These little items are trouble. Let me state right off that I have not always been on entirely friendly terms with “the facts.” We have had a long and, at times, uneasy relation. Things took a bad...
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