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June 2013

June 04, 2013

Modern Stoicism – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

A number of my friends have gotten more interested in Stoicism of late and have...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

You Gotta be Kind to be Cruel

Libby Ann and Daniel Finke are running another installment of their Forward Thinking series, where...

May 25, 2013

Oh, the places you might not want to go!

Tomorrow, I get to watch my brother graduate, and I'm quite excited for him, and,...

May 16, 2013

The Rotten Orange and the Kingslayer

Calah Alexander kicked off a Patheos Catholic-wide conversation about certain kinds of abstinence-only education with...

May 09, 2013

The Self-Inflicted Wound of the Torturer

In C.S. Lewis's Of Other Worlds, most of the selections in the book are critical essays,...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

Pardon me, are you using that education?

In The Guardian, Keli Goff has some harsh words for women in my demographic who become...

April 23, 2013

The Sin of Inconvenience

I'd like to highlight a couple comments from the quite long thread on Babies on...

April 20, 2013

What Good is Sitting Alone at Your Desk?

In The Washington Post, Elsa Walsh takes issue with Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In. Walsh thinks Sandburg's...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

Now we shoot through a screen, darkly

Via Mark Shea, Time has a lovely story about a German pilot who couldn't find...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

What should we be hurt by?

Poking around the internet, I ran across two interesting articles that seemed to be linked...

January 21, 2013

Waiting for Enemies to Die

There's an expression I've heard in the gay rights movement as a kind of rallying...

January 17, 2013

What Do We Owe All the Valjeans?

Since Les Mis seems to prompt endless reprises on this blog, you won't be surprised...

January 09, 2013

But Aren’t Saints Dreadfully Dull?

Tonight I'm seeing Les Miserables for the third time (there have been various outings as people...

January 06, 2013

The Criminal Justice System, Touched by Radical Forgiveness

In today's NYT Magazine, there's an amazing story about forgiveness and the criminal justice system. Conor...

January 02, 2013

Two Terrible Ways to Have Sex

Eaton of Growing up Goddy has written a much needed jeremiad against a poisonous strain...

January 01, 2013

Help Me Keep A New Year’s Resolution

New Year's is a time for cached thoughts. When people ask about resolutions, my...

December 2012

December 04, 2012

Is Judgement Always about Punishment?

Chris Hallquist has uploaded another chapter of his book for comment I don't have anything...

November 2012

November 17, 2012

My Hatred of Football Outweighs My Apathy for Harvard

I hate football. If humans are the thinking animal, football (and the hard hits and...

November 12, 2012

The Day After Veterans Day

Veterans Day occurred yesterday in the U.S. It's a federal holiday for the recognition of...

November 05, 2012

Put Your Moral Philosophical Hands Where We Can See Them, Dennett!

This post is part of a series discussing Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell. Very early on in...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

How art thou Fallen, Severus, son of Spinner’s End

As we're all battered by a storm, huddled up by our stockpiled supplies, our minds...

October 29, 2012

What Freedom from Moral Sensibilities Feels Like

Writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Dutton underwent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to...

October 25, 2012

Why Won’t Candidates Run on This Life Issue?

This week, as part of Election Month at Patheos, the prompt for bloggers is: What...

October 15, 2012

To take up arms against a sea of sexists

In July of 2011, an unpleasant incident at an atheism conference prompted a much needed...

October 11, 2012

The Generic God of the Stump Speech

Patheos bloggers are roundtabling on issues of faith and politics in the run-up to the...

October 08, 2012

Fending off near occasions of sin

Late last week, Xanthate asked: I got to ask, as a Christian, how do you feel...

October 04, 2012

Know Your Enemy

I've been introducing one of my housemates to Battlestar Galactica and we got into an argument...

October 03, 2012

Unarmed Prophets Stuck in a Chinese Room

I received a comped copy of Alone with a Jihadist through Speakeasy. Aaron Taylor spent seven hours arguing...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

Happy Petrov Day! Celebrate by not annihilating everyone!

Taken from the description of Petrov Day on LessWrong: The story begins on September 1st,...

September 24, 2012

What are your utils denominated in?

In the comment threads for the "Hey! I didn't say Science Says!" post, there...