Ph.D. philosophy. Syracuse Univ. Teaching there and Le Moyne College. Author, A Realist Metaphysics of Race. Covenant member, Missio Church.
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Pew finds that in 1990, 73% of US immigrants were Christians. In 2020, it finds 70% were Christians. So the overwhelming majority are Christians, and nothing has changed recently. Oh, and 62% of Americans overall are Christians, so they're making us more Christian.
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Tucker Carlson on NPR today, when asked if his views will be heard a certain way by antisemitic people: "Well, I don't really know anyone who is antisemitic."
Nick Fuentes & Darryl Cooper are "just asking questions" when resisting "organized Jewry" and denying the Holocaust.
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If you have any interest in the actual legal issues with the Clancy trial, read this thread. Most people are getting them very wrong.
Far be it for me to be the reasonable non-hot take here on Lindsay Clancy, but the law in Massachusetts requires the jury to presume Clancy is insane and only find her guilty if the prosecution can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she is sane. She strangled 3 toddlers, slit her throat, and threw herself out an upstairs window. The prosecution had a very tough job. You might not like it, and I do not like it, but the presumption of insanity is how the jury approached the case.
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Jeremy Pierce retweeted
“there is absolutely no such thing, under the Gospel, as a Christian commonwealth. There are, indeed, many cities and kingdoms that have embraced the faith of Christ…But he instituted no commonwealth...
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Lots of stuff in Locke that I don't like, but his political philosophy contains some gems. This small work is one of them.
“the Gospel frequently declares, that the true disciples of Christ must suffer persecution; but that the church of Christ should persecute others…I could never yet find in any o the books of the New Testament.”
Locke, Letter concerning Toleration (1689)
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Trump Announces Bold New Plan to Fight Inflation by Renaming Bodies of Water
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Colorblind policies violate the equal protection clause. To enforce that clause, you need to know if someone is illegitimately discriminating on the basis of race, which means you need to pay attention to race to see if someone is discriminating.
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Good discussion of ethical issues in AI. Takes the arguments against it seriously but recognizes its value and the limits of those arguments. Anything less nuanced than this is a non-starter.
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This seems right that this is going on. I wouldn't say it's one of the worst things about Trump, though. Not even close.
One of the worst things about Trump is that he’s ushering in more corporate welfare, cronyism, and socialism while parading it under the banner of capitalism, so we end up with all the failings of those ideologies but with a generation of young people blaming the market economy.
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If you don't like a Supreme Court decision declaring your executive order unconstitutional, just issue another executive order doing again what that Supreme Court decision says is unconstitutional. I'm sure that will go well.
In this post, I explain why most of Trump's new executive order targeting birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional under the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Trump v. Barbara: reason.com/volokh/2026/08/06…
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This fits with my experience. They once had Syracuse University as one of their top red light schools. I think it was top five. It's now in the yellow zone. I see a movement toward making everyone feel welcome, with explicit recognition of low belonging for conservatives.
Restrictive campus speech policies are at a historic low.
FIRE’s latest Spotlight on Speech Codes found major improvements, with a record number of schools earning our highest rating and, for the first time, fewer than 10% of public colleges having restrictive policies.
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Texas forced a philosophy professor to stop teaching Plato, but Florida did them one better. They fired a college instructor for an assigned reading intended to get students to critique an unlikeable narrator because they didn't like what the unlikeable narrator did.
New @thefireorg lawsuit! We're defending an English prof fired for assigning a short story.
Like we've told students for years:
If you go to school for 4 years and don't once encounter an idea that challenges, offends, or shocks you — well, you should ask for your money back.
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These results are very weird. And see the first comment. Everyone thinks the elites hold the opposite political views from what they themselves hold, but they can't agree on who those elites are. Politics is doing more work here than what the numbers immediately show.
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You only need to spend a few minutes on this platform to realize this, but this shows it to be a universal problem, not just on social media.
A new study finds that partisans on both sides of a divisive issue tend to classify moderates as belonging to the opposing camp, not as neutral parties. studyfinds.com/political-mod…
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A thread full of people thinking an AI company buying a book and scanning it in is somehow preventing anyone else from buying the same book and reading it in a print copy. This is utterly weird. They're treating this like it's a book burning.
More on Anthropic destroying millions of books:
"court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI—details buried in a copyright ruling on fair use whose broader fair use implications we reported yesterday."
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a…
It was a finding from a legal case:
s3.documentcloud.org/documen…
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