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Episode 4 – The Case Against Public Education
Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Episode 3: What Happened To Modern Science? aka How and When we got to Post-Modern Science
“The crucial event was that one which for almost two hundred years had been felt to be impossible, but which nevertheless took place near the start of this century: the fall of the Newtonian empire in physics. This catastrophe, and the period of extreme turbulence in physics which it inaugurated, changed the entire history of the philosophy of science. Almost all philosophers of the 18th and 19th centuries, it was now clear, had enormously exaggerated the certainty and extent of scientific knowledge.” ~David Stove, “Popper and After”
Episode 2: What is Science? And What Isn’t Science?
A new scientific truth does not triumph by...
Episode 1- Introduction to the House; What is Truth?
An intro to the podcast and a discussion of Truth: What is true? How can you know? What are some of the “truth-seeking human endeavors” that aid us in that search?
Le roi est mort; vive le roi
It was warm for November, at least by the standards of most of the men who had just arrived at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, for the pending Trans-Atlantic voyage.
Saving the Republic – Term Limits III
Reduce the Market Itself Donald Trump campaigned...
Saving the Republic – Term Limits II
How to Justify Legislation Every problem, no...
Saving the Republic – Term Limits (pt. 1)
Campaign Finance Reform - A Primer All attempts...
On What It Means to Be a Marine on our 244th Birthday
I slammed on the brakes, sending Scott forward. He didn’t curse. He was reaching for his M4 as he looked up.
“Oh, fuck-”
I just nodded my head. Thirty yards in front of us, we could see the little flags in the ground, red and white, in neat rows, some rows completed, some not. Some entirely white, others a combination of red and white. It was part of the extensive United Nations mine-clearing effort in Afghanistan; I had driven us into an old Russian minefield and we were fully in it.
The Loss of American Social Power – Homelessness
I have to confess to being interested in...
The Abject Lesson’s Newsletter
Ethics, Philosophy, Law, and Spirituality from an attorney, author, and father.
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Culture in America: Where It All Begins… and Ends. Part 1 – a primer
Culture as Water I have had the good fortune to have traveled extensively my whole life. I’ve driven through all but one of these united States (South Dakota), and a career in the military allowed me to see a good chunk of Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and...
Statism in America: A Two-Branch Tree of Woe
I intentionally used the word “Statism” in place of “Socialism” in the title to this piece because no matter what anybody ever says “socialism” is, it isn’t that; that being whichever most-recently-failed flavor of Marxism has descended into an authoritarian dystopia...
“Systemic Racism” – A Play in Four Parts
I. An Apology... Sort of In light of my recent notoriety over my defense of my friend, Greg Glassman, I have received (mostly) supportive feedback, some mild disagreement, a correction, and several pieces of semi-literate, gibbering nonsense...Of course, it is to the...
In Defense of Greg Glassman
CrossFit CEO and CrossFit community rift is reflective of larger split in these United States It starts with a tweet... Oy. Of course it does. I was Greg Glassman's lawyer for 8+ years at CrossFit; I was his first General Counsel and an early CrossFit Affiliate before...
Chapter 22: Why, Indeed
If both individual and organizational greed largely describe the “Why” of Chapter 20, the final reason for the refusal to concede the low ground of the AVIP also falls under the broad category of “money,” but in the negative sense, rather than the positive one. In...
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