Index to my shorter articles
Analytical philosophy
The vast hypocrisy of "There's no such thing as right and wrong" -- again
There IS such a thing as right and wrong
Assumptions in moral debate
Biblical exegesis
My take on an ancient controversy: The apostolic succession
Why Genesis chapter 1?
Hellfire and the immortal soul are pagan doctrines
Do the Scriptures need interpreting?
Some more exegesis
Predestination -- and a small reflection on the Calvinist culture into which I was born
The meaning of "soul" in the Bible
JOHN 8:58 does not necessarily mean what it seems . "Jesus said unto them, "truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am". (RSV).
The meaning of "amen" in the Bible
Breivik
The success of Anders Behring Breivik
"Psycho-analysing" terrorist Breivik
Breivik wins again
Was Breivik inevitable?
The Breivik salute
Christianity and religion generally
Wow! A piece of psychological research that favours Christians!
Some rambling reflections on the flexibility of denominational loyalty among the Protestant laity
Is Protestantism of New Testament or of German origin?
Are religious people better adjusted psychologically?
How did religion evolve?
Does religion rot your intelligence?
Religion and theology. Bultmann
Evolution
People who are less reflective are more religious?
Conservatism
The big tent
Conservatives are happier because they are less angry
The latest "Conservatives are stupid" accusation
A conservatism hater
Are conservatism and racism indistinguishable?
Are conservatives less creative than liberals?
Another Leftist claim of psychological dysfunction among conservatives
Nigel Farage, the Leader of the UK Independence Party, gets the European Parliament right
Islamic radicalism blamed on "conservatism"
Leftist psychologists prove that a conservative is someone who has been mugged by reality
“Turkeys voting for Christmas”. That's what the intellectual elite think of working class conservative voters.
Grabbing traditions that the Left have not yet managed to destroy
Misunderstandings about the military
St Andrew's day reflections
More academic evidence of the importance of genes and the UNIMPORTANCE of your home environment
Are conservatives lazy thinkers?
Ideology and "what works"
DO PEOPLE BECOME MORE CONSERVATIVE AS THEY AGE? Comment on Dangelis and open-mindedness
Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?
Journalist Chris Mooney is feeling his way towards an understanding of the psychology of politics
Conservatives have the gift of contentment
The martial paradox
Leftism
A nasty memory of bigoted Leftism among American academics
Leftist anti-science
Leftism rots the brain (again)
An amusing Leftist evasion about Christian faith and abortion
Genetic defect identified in Leftists
Germany's "Democratic Party" in the 1930s
For Leftists, hate takes the place of knowledge
Leftism and hate
Tony Judt and the confusion of the modern Left
Leftists and the armed forces
Leftist emotional insensitivity
LOL! Leftist philosophers tie themselves into a knot
Brains differ in liberals, conservatives
Are Liberals More Open-Minded Than Conservatives?
"Love me. I'm a liberal"
An interwar German novel was the forerunner of a great Leftist lie: Margaret Mead
The Left do NOT mean well
Material success and social failure? The Wilkinson & Pickett work
A small reflection on the constant Leftist call for unity
Lakoff reinvents the wheel
Weltbuergertum (World citizenship)
Deep dishonor in America's Leftist academe -- Duke U
Dickens the social reforner
Why no increase in living standards?
Naughty Obama Mamma -- photographs
Naughty Obama Mamma -- 2012 Update
The Australian Left has a history of blind pacifism
The genetics of politics
An interesting difference between the Left in Australia and the USA
Acemoglu and yet another of the Left's implacable attempts to deny the reality of racial differences
What are the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty? Acemoglu again
Ideology and "what works"
Bipartisanship: It takes two to tango
Hitler, Fascism & Nazism
Gottfried on Goldberg
Did Hitler escape to South America?
More Hitler history
Hitler's motivation rediscovered
Hitler's propaganda
Was Hitler a racist?
More skepticism about the death of Hitler
Some stray thoughts on Vorwaerts! Vorwaerts! (The song of the Hitler Youth)
What fun! HNN has just run a "special" denying that Fascism/Nazism was Leftist!
Nazi Music
The "Nazi" Pope
"Nazi". I am going to try to explain where the word "Nazi" comes from.
An amazing defence of Nazism as "Rightist"
More on the Fascist element in Obama's appeal
IS OBAMA AN AUTHORITARIAN?
MORE ON THE FASCIST RESONANCES IN OBAMA
More on Obama as the heir to Fascism
"Tomorrow belongs to me"
Were the Nazis mad? Comment on the book by HERF, JEFFREY: The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust
Jews and Israel
Abuse as a response to threat
Are antisemites mad?
The Church of England and Die Judenfrage
Is God a racist?
The fate of the Jews
"Some of my best friends are Jews"
Why oh why do a few Jews make it hard for Jews generally??
I'm at it again: "Die Judenfrage" and religious identity
Why Jews Vote Democratic – Redux
Are Jews a nation?
A small meditation for the Jewish New Year
Jews as a race
Jews and victimology
How ancient is Judaism?
More on the antiquity of Judaism
Another small meditation on antisemitism
The Sabbath
The death of a Jew-hater
A wicked proposition
History
WHY TWO WORLD WARS WERE FOUGHT
Alternative history
ARMISTICE DAY / VETERANS' DAY
What caused the Industrial Revolution?
Obama's birth certificate
A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT GERMANY YESTERDAY AND TODAY
WAS WWII A GOOD WAR?
"Free" university education for the poor: Was that first brought to to Australia by a Leftist government?
Japan, WWI and Fascism
Global warming
There is no lid on the greenhouse
Pick your proxy. What do we conclude when temperature proxies contradict both one another and real-world data?
The "skeptics" are "hiding the decline" too
Climate variability and the sun: The "harder" the data, the stronger is the demonstrated connection between variations in the two
Greenhouse theory: Is there a greenhouse effect and does it matter?
Some inconvenient temperature data from Australia
Greenland data fiddle
The late great Inigo Jones -- Australian long-range forecaster
Lewandowsky is again torturing the facts in an attempt to prove that climate skepticism as an unreasonably fixed belief.
Stephan Lewandowsky: The de-published man. A psychopathic psychologist?
Coral reef alarmists can't keep their story straight
Tell me the old old story about wicked mankind and coral reefs: Pandolfi and Bellwood
Some cooked-up psychologizing about climate skepticism -- Comment on John Cook
The credulous "Skeptical Inquirers" are hiding the decline too
An outraged philosopher: DONALD A BROWN
Scrambling to explain away who the skeptics are: Comment on McCright & Dunlap
Warmism in theory and in practice
Health, medicine and diet
Bex and the demonization of APCs
The diabetes boogeyman: Does diabetes make you fat rather than the other way around?
THE GREENFIELD FILE -- The story of a fraud
The Avandia beatup
Claim: Mediterranean diet can add 3 years to your life... even if you don't start until you're 70 (?)
Immigration
Muslims and Hispanic illegals: Can we judge the present by the past?
A few observations about immigration and intelligence
Immigration and crime — disastrous new study
Losing Ground: Hispanic children fall behind their peers quickly, a study finds
Immigration and crime: Has Ron Unz built his castle on sand?
IQ
"Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent"
Is the Brain Like a Muscle, Really? Debunking Myths about Gender and Mathematics Performance?
IQ and ideology: A little puzzle
Amusing crap about IQ: A murder in your area lowers your IQ?
That old hatred of IQ again
IQ rediscovered -- including its heritability and its link to social class
Israel, India, China and IQ
That dreaded IQ again: Satoshi Kanazawa
The latest bit of bright-eyed optimism about IQ
Nisbett answered by Rushton & Jensen
Leaky Jonathan has discovered Nisbett
Kristof of the NYT thinks he has made a great discovery
The NYT and IQ again. Kristoff on Nisbett
Motivation and IQ among blacks
The Obama effect: Have blacks in general suddenly become smarter?
Another potshot at conservative IQ
"Smart fraction" theory
Whine! whine! whine! Would YOU be devastated if you found that most physicists are men?
Another lame attempt to wriggle out of the Race/IQ correlation
THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE
Is the female of the species really more intelligent than the male?
Race, IQ and wealth: A preliminary reply to Unz
Some more observations about Ron Unz and IQ
Mexican IQ is probably bimodal
IQ tests are 'meaningless and too simplistic' claim researchers -- comments on Hampshire
Psychology & Sociology
Simplistic thinking in politics and the ad hominem fallacy
Appeals to authority
A social science attack on that wicked voter ID
‘Happiness gene’ in brain determines basic levels of contentment
Psychologists preaching feminism again
Can A Test Really Tell Who's A Psychopath?
Why do so many people hate Gail Trimble?
When will psychologists ever learn? Artifactual relationships, absent sampling and invalid measuring instruments still abound in research into the psychology of politics
Were the lying Dutchman's lies important?
The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind -- a comment on Carney, Jost, Gosling and Potter
Scrambling to explain away who the climate skeptics are
Roger Steare's hilarious attempt to measure morality
Haidt and the psychology of politics
Mooney the spinner
Jos Meloen, a Dutch melon head -- and a true believer in the Adorno unicorn
Why Jonathan Haidt is wrong
The importance of culture and American exceptionalism
Childhood TV watching and crime
Race and racism
A small anecdote and some reflections on race and culture
Play accused of stirring up hatred against the Japanese
EVEN HEAVILY PROPAGANDIZED COLLEGE STUDENTS PREFER THEIR OWN RACE
A PROPHETIC POEM
Are racists cuddly?
People from the higher latitudes of the world have bigger brains
Racial and religious vilification in Australia
Mixed race can be a good thing
Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain
Group Pride, insecurity and the Left
An uninsightful look at racist attitudes
Stanford Study purports to demonstrate that racism is a reason why Obama policies are failing
A small note on the Tuskegee Syphilis study of the 1930s
The Asian influence in Australia
World Vision will not sponsor poor Jewish children
More on World Vision bigotry
How did Australia dodge the GFC?
Is Harvard a Jewish plot? And does it matter?
Other topics
Anent prose style and translatability
A small reflection about the relationship between England and Australia
"This rather odd little German dynasty" That is the extraordinary description that Christopher Hitchens gives to the British Royal family.
The USA: A country for the little guy
The martial spirit in Sweden -- yesterday and today
Names, names, names. Personal names are rather an interest of mine.
Why are webhosts so ill-mannered?
A defender of hopeless causes? William Zantzinger
Where has that inflation gone?
Is libertarianism an infantile disorder?
They're still lying with statistics
American exceptionalism -- and voting frequency
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