Scientism in the Arts and Humanities – The New Atlantis


transformation of the humanities into an anti-cultural force

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claps back at Sarah Huckabee Sanders – Business Insider


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back at the White House on Wednesday after Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed her warning about climate change.

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Why European Islam’s current problems might reflect a 100-year-old mistake – The Ottoman caliphs


Europe’s move to undermine the caliphate shifted the centre of theological influence

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Article in Harvard Law Journal concludes: The preborn child is a constitutional person


The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to ensure that “no state in the Union should deny to any human being . . . the equal protection of the laws.”

Source: Article in Harvard Law Journal concludes: The preborn child is a constitutional person

My Brain and I – The New Atlantis


Leading neuroscientists believe that we need to junk our everyday understanding of the mind, and that much of philosophy needs to go too. In this essay adapted from his new book ‘The Soul of the World’, Roger Scruton pokes holes in their confidence and proposes another way of understanding who and what we are.

“But suppose that the moral explanation is genuine and sufficient. It would follow that the genetic explanation is trivial. If rational beings are motivated to act in accordance with moral laws regardless of any genetic strategy, then that is sufficient to explain the fact that they do behave in this way.”

 

 

Source: My Brain and I – The New Atlantis