Go read Jim Henley’s response to this inane argument from Onkar Ghate. Ghate, an Objectivist writing for the Ayn Rand Institute, thinks “mass civilian casualties in terrorist countries” [sic!] are the fault of said innocent civilians. If nothing else, it’s worth seeing how a devoted follower of Ayn Rand manages not only to justify […]
Since Descartes’ cogito ergo sum, philosophers have thought that the content of our own conscious experience is the most indubitable thing each of us knows. Based on some recent experiences, however, I am willing to risk adding at least two more more things to the list.
Whether the Taxi is outside my house.
My house is […]
Robert Fisk, comparing Saddam Hussein to Joseph Stalin, was dismissed with contempt by David Adesnik, who said “Just when you thought he couldn’t be any stupider, he outdoes himself again.” Kevin Drum has already made a relevant comment here. But it turns out that Fisk is not the first to draw the comparison.
Far away from the sound and fury of the war, high up in the ivory tower, my review [pdf] of Stephan Fuchs’ Against Essentialism just appeared in the current issue of Contemporary Sociology.
Another day of heavy traffic to this site, nearly all of it due to referrals from Cursor.org. A commenter explained that it was because they were carrying Al Jazeera news in English, I think. In any event, I got more than 16,000 unique visitors. The comments section in the CNN post is a real zoo, […]
A subsidiary of Halliburton has won one of the first contracts to be awarded by the Government for rebuilding work in Iraq.
Update: For dessert, cynics may note that it was a no-bid contract.
Update 2: Actually, these appear to be two different contracts, both to Halliburton subsidiaries, one bid and one no-bid.
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