Killpoets

Memoria in Aeterna

2011-02-28T09:13:00.001-05:00

Frank W. Buckles, the last doughboy standing, is gone.

May he, and the countless others who served, never be forgotten.

Up Not Out

2011-02-09T08:38:00.001-05:00

Edward Glaeser touts the merits of the skyscraper in an Atlantic article.

I think I will ease into this slowly...

2010-10-01T21:08:00.001-04:00

What, exactly, can science claim to know?

How Did I Get Here?

2010-02-15T21:14:00.003-05:00

Mark Hughes of the Independent travels to Baltimore looking for The Wire. From experience I can say that Fayette and Monroe looks worse than ever.

Reflections on Management

2009-12-20T11:23:00.002-05:00

TNR has an interesting article on how business schools are affecting businesses.

Independence

2009-07-04T09:32:00.000-04:00

A good thing.

Happy 4th.

Religion and Modernity

2009-05-25T07:26:00.001-04:00

New Statesman review of " God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World".

2009-04-14T20:29:00.001-04:00

Simon Blackburn and the subtleties of David Hume's religious beliefs.

2009-04-06T08:10:00.002-04:00

Christopher Hitchens on the evolution/creationism debate now taking place in Texas.

"There are days when I almost wish the fundamentalist could get their own way, just so that they would find out what would happen to them."

Rawls and Religion

2009-04-03T07:32:00.001-04:00

Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel explore the religious undertones of the lifelong work of John Rawls.

The Moral Problem of World Poverty

2009-03-07T08:26:00.003-05:00

Peter Singer takes educators to task for failing to address the problem of world poverty.

"If we take seriously the idea that the value of a human life does not diminish when we cross national boundaries, then we ought to be giving a much higher priority to reducing world poverty. I have in mind a broad re-envisioning of what we teach."

I freely admit that if we were to believe in a universal morality then the problem of global poverty should be of some concern.

Since I don't, I leave it to better people.

Society Without God

2009-01-29T07:56:00.002-05:00

Phil Zuckerman wonders if religious societies really are better off.

The Meaning of Offense

2008-10-20T07:48:00.001-04:00

Slate's Emily Yoffe looks at the importance that offense has in our social life.