Art

Artists, Take Your Stand

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I posted this message on Facebook in August 2018 and again in August 2019. The message is especially important in 2020, with civilization under assault. Are you an artist who loves beauty, not ugliness; virtues, not flaws; heroes, not mediocrities; integrity, not contradictions; clarity, not ambiguity; aspiration, not futility; romance, not promiscuity; eloquence, not vulgarity; […]

Epistemology

Update on My New Book

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Thanks to a reader, I have discovered that my new online bookstore serves only the U.S. and Canada. I made the unwarranted assumption that a bookstore platform run by the leading worldwide distributor of printed books (Ingram) would be international. I apologize for inconveniencing my international readers. Various international Amazon sites are now or soon […]

Epistemology

Announcing My Book: A Validation of Knowledge

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I am pleased to announce the self-publication of my book, A Validation of Knowledge: A New, Objective Theory of Axioms, Causality, Meaning, Propositions, Mathematics, and Induction. The book is the realization of my life’s work in epistemology. The ebook, as a PDF file, is available for purchase from my online bookstore for $5. (Update, 10/17/2020: […]

Politics

Leftism, Racism, Death

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The intrepid Heather Mac Donald, in this excellent short article, reminds us of facts that everyone knows at least approximately: Facts don’t matter to the academic victimology narrative. Far from destroying the black body, whites are the overwhelming target of interracial violence. Between 2012 and 2015, blacks committed 85.5 percent of all black-white interracial violent […]

Art

How I Am Spending My Spring Vacation

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First, I am nearly done with my book on epistemology, which has been nearly thirty years in the making. An advance copy is now being read by colleagues. Here is a draft of the cover. While colleagues have been reading, I have sought an alternative to in-person performances of my one-man show, which have been […]

Epistemology

Second Chance for Rural America with COVID-19

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The best article I have read on the COVID-19 pandemic is An Epistemic Crisis, by Jeffrey A. Tucker, on the website of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), an eminent pro-freedom think tank. This article, however, is not merely economic; it is primarily epistemological, as its title suggests. I wish I could quote the […]

Art

Abolish Socialist Schools, and Defeat Socialism

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The new scoundrels leading the political Left are finally admitting—after more than a century of brazen lying by such Leftist scoundrels as Woodrow Wilson, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama—that they are socialists. Therefore, without confusing readers and without repeating lengthy explanations, I can now just refer to Leftists as socialists. Socialism is generally […]

Politics

Using Deadly Force to Stop the Caravan of Invaders

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The first half of this essay presents facts, as reported by news media, regarding what has come to be called the “migrant caravan” traveling from Guatemala through Mexico, heading toward the southern border of the United States. In the second half, I recommend what the U.S. should do about this caravan. What has the caravan […]

Philosophy

Motivating Philosophy

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This article of mine, motivating the study of philosophy, appeared last Friday in Quillette: The Indispensable Study of Inescapable Matters For those who do not know Quillette, here is Jordan Peterson interviewing Quillette founder Claire Lehmann: Here is an article about Lehmann and Quillette: Australia’s Mistress of the Intellectual Dark Web Here is a New York […]