Saturday, August 16, 2025

How psychology became a separate discipline

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Disclaimer: I am writing here as a philosopher and as a historian , not as a  psychologist . That is, I freely admit that I am not an “expe...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Great naval conflicts: From the Seven Years’ War to the Napoleonic Wars

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Many pirate movies take place in this general time period, and so do many history movies I grew up on pirate movies like “Treasure Island,” ...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Why you should be concerned about postmodernism

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I have long had a fair number of friends who identify as “Marxist” or “socialist.” But I freely admit that relatively few of my friends ha...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Learning the basics of Biblical Hebrew from a book

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“Our knowledge of Biblical Hebrew is directly dependent upon Jewish oral tradition and thus on the state of that tradition during and follow...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Why I believe that critical race theory is unscientific

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Scientific theories must be testable. But if both results are believed to “prove” one right … Suppose I told you that something really crazy...
Monday, July 14, 2025

The “French Revolutionary Wars”: A great European cataclysm

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“Do you hear in the fields The howling of those fearsome soldiers? They are coming into your midst To slit the throats of your sons and con...

Gerald Ford: Owing his presidency to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment

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“In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation , the Vice President shall become President. Whenever th...