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Franklin Evans passes along this post by Gus diZerega, who writes the Pagan blog on Beliefnet, in which Gus talks about how Pagans find themselves pulled in both directions in the culture war, between the forces of mainstream conservative religion and the secular liberal science-minded folks. Excerpt: On the one hand we have no choice…

Philosopher Edward Feser, on why scientism — the view that science is the only valid way of knowing — is philosophically incoherent: Part I here, part II here. Excerpt: Why would anyone be attracted to such a bizarre and muddleheaded view? The answer–to paraphrase a remark made by Ludwig Wittgenstein in another context–is that “a…

One thing I regret about not having cable TV is that I don’t get to see programs like HBO’s “The Pacific,” which debuts on Sunday. It’s a World War II Marine Corps series based in part on E.B. Sledge’s classic memoir, “With the Old Breed.” I noticed this excerpt from the Washington Post’s favorable review…

Don’t feel too sorry for Greece in its financial agony. Get a load of this: ATHENS — Vasia Veremi may be only 28, but as a hairdresser in Athens, she is keenly aware that, under a current law that treats her job as hazardous to her health, she has the right to retire with a…

The Kansas City school board finally got around to doing what ought to have been done years ago: close about half of the city’s public schools. It’s quite a shock to the city, and understandably so; to lose half your schools in a stroke is an astonishing blow. But this has been a long time…

Naturally, I get all my advice about Celtic music I should try from a Texas Jew, the irrepressible Chuck Bloom of Plano. Chuck sent me last week a couple of discs, which I’ve been trying to get burned to my iPhone. This morning I said the heck with it, and brought one of them in…

“Plastic surgery has everything to do with how a person feels about him or herself. There’s no such thing as too much.” — Joan Rivers. Gawker is right: How come people still keep getting plastic surgery? Excerpt: Call me naive, but so much noise has been made lately about plastic surgery disasters — a conversation…

Big Think asked scientists and scientific types for their best guesses as to how the world might end. A cheerful video series!

Over on the Big Journalism site, Bruce Carroll highlights a YouTube clip in which a Muslim adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt University agreed under questioning in a public forum that Islam requires the death penalty for homosexuals. The Muslim, a chaplain at the university, also said that Muslims aren’t at liberty to question this teaching.…

At least for news, says Matt Steinglass. Excerpt: Kevin Drum reminds us that the outsized influence of cable TV news is bizarre, since its ratings are abysmal. Average Americans simply don’t watch it. They watch “American Idol”. As Matthew Yglesias points out, the only people who do watch cable TV news all the time are…
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