Friday, July 21, 2023

Five preliminary thoughts on Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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The movie is smoothly put together. The narration is told in multiple interweaving strands with at least two layers of retrospection, as in ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Maimonides and his Demons

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1. The Rambam's knowledge of the world was generally inferior to that of Chazal. 2. Like rationalists generally, the Rambam claimed to b...
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Monday, December 14, 2020

Robert Heinlein on the Education Doctorate (1980)

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              Hilda said loudly, "Zebbie! You never told me you went to Heidelberg."                "You never asked, Sharpie...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

A Brief History of the Quarrel of Philosophy and Poetry

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From Plato and Aristotle to the 18th century, literature submitted to the judgment of philosophy. We then had 140 years of Romanticism, from...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Five Rules for Conservative Culture Warriors

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1. Reinforce victory (on, say, abortion, where the culture shifted a long way from Fast Times at Ridgemont High to Juno) 2. Know the other s...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Israel N. Kochin, MD on HCQ+Zinc prophylaxis

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I showed my brother, New York City physician Israel N. Kochin, Scott Adams's account of HCQ+Zinc prophylaxis as a risk management strat...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

An Independent Empire book talk with Kochin & Taylor

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Book talk with An Independent Empire authors Michael Kochin and Michael Taylor "We are now Friends with England: Kochin and Taylor on...