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
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
Albert Einstein with a word for our day
Get your friends off the holodeck
I have a piece in the Chalkboard Review today, by the way
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
Progressive moral reasoning today - what is left?
Turn this into an opportunity, Christians
Centralization v. Cultural Diversity
Physicist writes about whatever he finds interesting - often the connections between ideas.