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Misc

In America, racism is worse than homophobia

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Praj / 0 Comment

Conservative writer Kevin Williamson accused Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of ‘leading a nationalist-socialist movement’ a la Ado...

Misc

Walker and creationism, ctd.

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Praj / 1 Comment

David Bruggeman has a sharp comment on my last post you should check out. For now I’d like to respond to this: Now, if a politician is a creationist, I wa...

Education

First Bouie, now McArdle

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Praj / 1 Comment

Megan McArdle becomes the second prominent journalist to agree with me and argue that it doesn’t matter if Scott Walker believes in evolution: I’m g...

Misc

Should Scott Walker go on offense about evolution?

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Praj / 0 Comment

Byron York wants Scott Walker and other Republicans to downplay evolution: Which means that a candidate should be able to say some version of the following when...

Misc

Jamelle Bouie is two for two

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Praj / 1 Comment

For the second time in a row Jamelle Bouie makes keen insights about science in society. But also for the second time in a row, he unnecessarily uses the sloppy...

Misc

We want our leaders to be like us

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Praj / 2 Comments

(So the combined 14 readers of my last blog and this one have probably inferred my two main policies. First, I don’t like to write about topics that most ...

Misc

Quote for the day

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Praj / 1 Comment

Dan Sarewitz in ‘Lies We Must Live With’: As is so often the case when we frame a problem as bimodal, however, we get the problem itself wrong. The ...

Evidence

Jamelle Bouie on ‘anti-science beliefs’

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Praj / 2 Comments

Jamelle Bouie thoughtfully critiques partisans’ tendency to drape their beliefs in science (emphasis added):  In the quest for partisan advantage, everyon...

Values

There’s more to life than voting

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Praj / 1 Comment

To finally respond to the substance of Dan’s comment, here he is asking how voters should think about politicians who believe in creationism: If my congre...

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