Sitemap - 2021 - Connecting Thoughts

Science teacher makes quick comment about significant figures and media reporting

A poem about 2021 (published in the early 1900s)

The palliative society, and a few helpful links

Jordan Peterson, the Matthew Principle, teachers, and public health experts

It is OK to reject critical theories, Christian institutions

You need some explanation for the fact that...

A helpful interview from Australia

The suffocating planning of our existence

How much of this is... people need their lives to be part of a bigger story?

Star Trek: Insurrection, Picard on vaccine mandates, and negatives of technological society

A quick Friday comment to remind you that the media is still lying to you with statistics

Eugyppius' report from a writer in Austria today is worth your read

Victimhood culture ported into COVID-world

I have to share this cute little bit of mathematics with you

A few snips from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society"

Rudderless people grabbing for identity and meaning wherever they can find it

A nice piece modeling Christian engagement with a pressing cultural issue

Comments on a statement from the Michigan GOP as illustration of the moral incompetence of elected Republicans today

This was quite an interesting history of bitcoin, by the way

I have a piece in The Federalist today, actually

A quick comment on the "slippery slope fallacy" that usually isn't

The loss of religion and the proliferation of NPCs

The wisdom and humility in slowing things down a bit

On looking away from the palantír

So... why are official state (and provincial) health departments telling obvious lies about COVID?

Nice book excerpt by Stefano Zamagni on Christian anthropology v. the technocratic anthropology

I appreciate James Poulos' thoughts on technology (and spiritual battle), by the way

The choice to wait and watch for a while should almost always be respected

A few quotations from Ivan Illich's "Medical Nemesis" for our day

Two quick philosophical comments on Biden's vaccine mandates speech yesterday

The technocratic state doesn't care about you

Some principles of the present propaganda and censorship

Some considerations for interacting well with science

Speak to our moment of demonization, Church

A few more general thoughts about the last two years

A minor, common good defense of individual liberty

Havel and the automatism of technological civilization

A helpful sermon on authority, vaccine mandates, and religious exemptions

The teaching power of ritual

Albert Einstein with a word for our day

Cruelty is not a virtue

Get your friends off the holodeck

I have a piece in the Chalkboard Review today, by the way

On disease and "rights"

Personal and local interest post - the Country Mill case finally goes to trial on Tuesday

What if more data is making your society (or institution, or life) worse?

Pride is also, now, about the sexualization of children

Sometimes one video is worth sharing

A few highlights from the Association of Classical Christian Schools conference

Much that is valuable in Kulldorff's recent editorial for Spiked

Some early thoughts on "The Technological Society", by Jacques Ellul

"But keep masking children" is illustrative of several bad trends in our thinking

Some thoughts from observing humans over the last year

"I was sick and you visited me", eh.

I quite enjoyed "Reading Moses, Seeing Jesus"

Some alternative tech for our censorious times

Some lessons from The Gulag Archipelago

Moral prioritization as antidote to data paralysis

Why do people do the things they do?

Some less common (or perhaps not) arguments against central planning

Credentialism makes us stupid

Progressive moral reasoning today - what is left?

Turn this into an opportunity, Christians

Mind the secular liturgies

Centralization v. Cultural Diversity

Physicist writes about whatever he finds interesting - often the connections between ideas.