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Thomas Sowell and A Conflict of Visions

October 14, 2021 Protagoras

Slowly, over the past 40 years or so, Sowell has become a national treasure. In the desert of nonsense and…

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En Memoria de Roger Utt

October 10, 2021 Protagoras

Me cuesta creer que han pasado 20 años desde que falleció mi amigo Roger Utt. De él y de su…

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Interdependence: Biology and Beyond

October 7, 2021 Protagoras

This book by biologist Kriti Sharma is a short mind-limbering exploration of how best to view reality. Iain McGilchrist mentioned…

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Socrates Was a Bum

October 4, 2021 Protagoras

It always astonishes me to see educated people praise Socrates. Likewise with Plato. Have they actually read Plato? Have they…

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The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

September 29, 2021 Protagoras

Somewhere in my files I probably still have a clipping of a cartoon I saw in National Review back in…

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Thus Always to Bad Elites

September 28, 2021 Protagoras

When I saw the title of this essay by Ted McAllister in The American Mind, I had an inkling that…

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All Things Shining

September 18, 2021 Protagoras

Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly wrote a shining book titled All Things Shining. One way to summarize their book…

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Happy Constitution Day

September 17, 2021 Protagoras

Happy Constitution Day. Apple has all sorts of obscure things added to their iOS calendars but apparently not Constitution Day.…

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Conversations That Build

September 16, 2021 Protagoras

Blaise Pascal apparently wrote, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” I…

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Thank you in advance for not using “Thank you in advance”

September 11, 2021 Protagoras 1 Comment

Surely there is no uglier, more annoying phrase in the English language than “Thank you in advance.” Am I wrong?…

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