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Doctors, Jeopardy, and Computers

When I was recently watching online NOVA’s Smartest Machine on Earth—an exceptionally fascinating documentary on the IBM computer that defeated the two most accomplished (human) Jeopardy players in the game show’s history—it occurred to me that it won’t be long before … Continue reading

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Are You Really Sure You Want God to be Dead?

If atheism were to achieve its “godless humanity” wish, what Huxlian Brave New World might arrive with this advent? If you’re an atheist, doesn’t this give you just a little bit of pause? Or is atheism simply a matter of truth for you, … Continue reading

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Is Faith the Last Refuge of a Routed Argument, and Would the Reign of Secular Reason Be Like a Bucolic Summer Breeze?

If patriotism is, as Samuel Johnson put it, the last refuge of the scoundrel, is faith the last refuge of a “routed argument”? That was 17th century female British writer, and now feminist icon, Aphra Behn’s, cutting observation in some startling lines from her poem, “To … Continue reading

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“Who is John Galt and What is the Going Galt Movement?”: A YouTube Video by Santi Tafarella

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The Obama Era

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Quote of the Day

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this arresting passage in his short story, “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”: [P]eople appeared who began devising ways of bringing men together again, so that each individual, without ceasing to prize himself above all others, might not … Continue reading

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