I know I’ve mentioned them in passing here before, but dear sweet Jeebus, The Long Winters kick ass. I’ve been listening to their two albums for a couple weeks now with the kind of continued fascination I usually get for maybe one album at a time every few years. Phenomenal stuff. Go buy everything they’ve […]

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You know, I was looking over this Scientific American piece debunking creationist (sorry “ID”) arguments and found myself wondering, how much would creationists really like it if public schools were to genuinely “teach the debate” in public schools? That is, what if after presenting the theory and massive evidence supporting evolution, biology teachers were to […]

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It’s this Thursday evening at Karma on 19th and I; I’m gonna try to pop by for a while.

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I was having an argument about whether the conflict between utilitarianism and most people’s intutions is a decisive objection to the theory, and since he’s now blogged about it, I figure I may as well carry it over here. Will writes: [Utilitarianism] is inconsistent with our “sense of justice” and thus utilitarian principles will not […]

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This New Yorker article reminded me of some thoughts that have been buzzing around my head as I’ve been reading Everything Bad Is Good for You. One—and I may have posted on this before sometime—is that recorded music must have an incredible effect on our expectations of performed music. A hundred years ago, any competently […]

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The BBC is holding a vote to select a philosophical champeen: the greatest philosopher of all time, with sound clips from eminent contemporary philosophers defending their choices from among twenty finalists. Now, first, it seems a bit weird to have Plato and Socrates as different entries, rather than one Plocrates entry: All we know of […]

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I finally got around to checking out the new MoMA this weekend, though I only made it about halfway through before closing time and blisters forced me out. Among the pieces I remember finding especially intriguing was Horses Running Endlessly by Gabriel Orozco. The piece is a quadruple-sized chessboard that uses four colors (black, white, […]

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I’m in serious envy of NR‘s Andy McCarthy for coming up with the headline: “I’ll see your flush and raze you a mosque.”

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