Daily Archive: November 5, 2010

/// November 5, 2010

A Metaphysical Train Wreck is Music to Skeptical Ears

Chris — no philosophical slouch he — writes: It’s interesting that Joe brings out the “no true atheists” trope in his first post, claiming that atheism is ultimately “incoherent” (at least as much as...

Barrett Brown

/// November 5, 2010

Debate: Response to Joe Carter’s Extended Opening Argument

Apologies for the delay; I’ve been obligated to work on some other projects over the past few days but I should now be free to give this debate the attention it merits. In addition...

Erik Kain

/// November 5, 2010

The Hunger Games (and other books and such)

I just finished the second book of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy – Catching Fire. Both books have been really great reads – fast paced, suspenseful, extremely and surprisingly violent given their intended audience....

Jason Kuznicki

/// November 5, 2010

Teams

This really speaks to how I view politics: In one of the most shameless displays of political narcissism in recent memory, presumptive Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) choked up on Election...

Erik Kain

/// November 5, 2010

Should we ban roses because they give us pleasure?

Via Andrew, here’s TPM’s Josh Marshall: I just don’t know if I think marijuana should be legalized at all. Maybe it’s that I’m getting into my 40s. And maybe I’m a hypocrite… But do...

Erik Kain

/// November 5, 2010

Status redistribution and American exceptionalism

“It occurs to me that there’s an obvious link here with the idea that the contemporary populist right is heavily driven by ressentiment—and that a lot of our current politics has less to do...

Rufus F.

/// November 5, 2010

Sophocles: Antigone- Estrangement, the Divine, and the State

What a coincidence! Today, Mr. Brown and Mr. Carter debate the role of religious belief, or disbelief, and the state- largely about what ground of being provides the best common basis for society- and...