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Linkfest 2023-01-28: The Dumb Ox
Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, my patron saint. You can pick up Ed Feser’s excellent introduction to Aquinas for only $0.99 on Amazon today.
Twitter anon Vulpine Outlaw looks at how the New Atheism movement was in part a response to 9/11, and
Linkfest 2023-01-20: Sugar and Sickness
The Long View: An Army of Davids
Self-assembling nanobots are vaporware, a concept without even a glimmer of actual technology behind it, so its is appropriate that they are used to advocate for libertarianism, a political philosophy without a constituency.
Nonetheless, I could not help but reflect by the time
Snaaaake!
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The Long View 2009-01-20: A New Era of Responsibility
John's 2009 commentary on President Obama’s first inaugural is a good reminder of how quickly the kind of quotidian commentary that many blogs specialized in quickly loses salience. However, I do find it interesting to look for items of more enduring interest. Here, John suggests that the