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...York Times editorial board meeting, according to Richard Bradley’s “Harvard Rules.” Why didn’t Summers attack any of a half-dozen other Harvard professors who published in similar venues and who, unlike West, had published intellectually unsound and morally reprehensible positions on, for example, torture? Was it racist or merely callous when, in 2004, Summers stated that the massive suffering of America’s indigenous people was largely unintentional? West was not, however, the only victim of Summers’ silverback leadership style. For lack of space here...
...team flipped, but in the Miller school of philosophy this makes complete sense. Otherwise, he says, "I'm maintaining an unfair advantage over my competitors knowingly, for the purpose of beating them alone. Not for the purpose of enjoying it more or skiing better. To me that's ethically unsound." (See 25 winter Olympic athletes to watch...
Among all of the harping about Lewis’ work, perhaps the most unsound is the tendency to utilize J. R. R. Tolkien’s muted disapproval of the work—“It really won’t do, you know!”—as “proof” that Lewis is all wrong. Tolkien was, of course, a devout and serious Christian believer who succeeded in converting Lewis from militant atheism. Somehow, critics imply, this should mean that Lewis’ work is sub par or meaningless. Why Tolkien?...
...home like everyone else did, figures there is just one habitable house left out of 25,000 in the entire parish. Even the homes that "survived" Katrina are foul with mud, mold and nests of water moccasins. From 50% to 80% of the parish may be so structurally unsound, it will have to be razed...
...problem is that this argument was demonstrated to be philosophically unsound long before Darwin ever came around. (There are many good objections, but here’s an especially juicy one: if the premise that all complexities were designed is accepted, then what could account for the complexities of the designer itself?) And then, like the second blow in a one-two punch, came Darwin, who spared us forever from having to use bad philosophy to fill in the holes that science could not yet address...