In the Western tradition human rights have been said to exist independently of the state because they have been based upon human dignity.
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Without this conviction there is no logical ground for supporting human rights in the United States or elsewhere; there is no logical ground for human rights at all.
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The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems.
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Instead of being expected to believe that human consciousness is an illusion, we may believe it exists — along with the cabbage mind and the electron mind.
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If strategy is more important than ideology for accelerationists, that is probably because their aims are incoherent and their groups fragment easily.
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On Saturday, I looked at Matt Johnson’s thoughts on George Orwell’s vital but comparatively unknown 1946 essay, “The Prevention of Literature.” Orwell, famous for Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), wanted to “make political writing into an art.” He was well aware that most competitors for public attention simply wanted to make political writing a reliable form of mass brainwashing. He hoped to find a public that sought an alternative. He published “Prevention” (longish, at 5500 words) in Polemic, a short-lived British intellectual magazine (1945–47), which featured work by such notables as Henry Miller, Bertrand Russell, A. J. Ayer, and Dylan Thomas. Intellectual freedom as “violence” Intellectual freedom, as we have always been told, is only ever one generation Read More ›
In addition to imprisoning the operators of these criminal conspiracies, we should pass laws explicitly making it a crime to purchase organs from overseas
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Burrows proposes an approach he calls “just preservation,” which would treat wild animals as the moral and legal equals of humans.
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If more scientists follow Anna Krylov’s lead in simply severing ties from journals that are being politicized, reform may follow.
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Science is incompatible with the onslaught of post-modernism. A major rift in biology may be looming straight ahead.
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The episode is part of a much broader picture: When private truth beats public truth, ideology quickly overrules science.
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Google says it was largely at the government’s behest. The Biden administration apparently believed in censorship far more than many Americans realized.
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Two other panelists are Chapman University’s Mark Skousen and John Tamny, author of The Deficit Delusion (2025). George Gilder will moderate.
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Sam Harris treats every lie as if it predictably spirals into atrocity. But most lies are judged against uncertain futures, not guaranteed horrors.
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If the physics establishment is only just now beginning to see that public funding depends on public legitimacy, well… it’s about time.
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If lying breeds chaos, so does truth-telling in the wrong contexts. Prudence, not absolutism, has to govern.
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The local elementary school went on lockdown due to the killer running, possibly in their direction, who was assumed to still be armed.
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When dictators adopt transhumanism, it won’t just be Ray Kurzweil trying to upload himself to digital immortality. There will be a very dark side.
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The transgender movement, like the teacher-driven war on math, has embraced the Skeptics’ own approach to reality and now uses it for ITS purposes.
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Materialism, Egnor says, is rarely defended explicitly; rather, objections are brushed off and prominent objectors may be Canceled.
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