Showing posts with label reason. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reason. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2026

A Fourth Kind Of Conviction

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     [The following piece first appeared at the old Palace of Reason on May 4, 2004 – FWP ]      Some years ago, PBS imported a series ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

The Natural, The Supernatural, And The Arguments

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     I hadn’t intended to write anything today, but I just had an encounter with something both brilliant and concise. When you find those t...
Friday, October 24, 2025

The Feminization Of The West

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     I’ve had this article in my Future Columns folder for a week, and have just returned to it. I originally saved it both from admiration...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Our Deadliest Weakness

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     “Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal….The mind's ability to rationalize its own shortcomings is unlimited.” ...
Friday, January 17, 2020

A Premise We Can’t Do Without

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     I subscribe to a service that presents me with some inspirational Catholic reading each morning. It’s a “game starter” that’s served me...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Moral Fundamentals Part 2: Lexical And Contextual Considerations

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     As I write in English (surprise, surprise), I frequently find myself grappling with one or more ambiguities built into that language. T...
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Moral Fundamentals Part 1

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     It has become ever more frequent an experience for me to start on an essay, get a few hundred words into it, and back away, muttering t...
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Friday, October 4, 2019

A Shift Of Emphasis

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     These past few days, readers have written to ask a common question, to wit: “Why all the oddball pieces, Fran, when there’s so much hap...
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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Motivations, Strategies, And Politics

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     A few informal definitions of important motivational states to lead off what’s likely to become a rather...impassioned column: Charity...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

The Nature Of Proof

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     There are days I want to throw up my hands and write off Mankind in its entirety. Too many people think with their wishes – or their am...
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Saturday, July 6, 2019

Mala In Se

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     Human beings have this annoying habit of asking “why?” when they hear some pronouncement that displeases or discommodes them. This is p...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

A Deadly Allergy

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     WARNING! The following piece contains not merely facts and logic, but also the correct uses of the words datum and data. (Also, pers...
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