Follow Logical Meme:
Store
Normism: The Philosophy of Norm Macdonald, a short book I wrote about the late great comedian, is available on Amazon.
Author Archives: Max West
Consciousness Is Not Mysterious?
Michael Graziano, who is very much in Camp Dennett, writes that “Consciousness Is Not Mysterious“. Of the Hard Problem of consciousness, Graziano writes: The brain constructs inaccurate models of the world. To understand consciousness scientifically, once again it’s necessary for … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy of Mind
Comments Off on Consciousness Is Not Mysterious?
Davos Boss Warns Refugee Crisis Could Be Precursor to Something Much Bigger
From Bloomberg News: As the crash in commodities prices spreads economic woe across the developing world, Europe could face a wave of migration that will eclipse today’s refugee crisis, says Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. “Look … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Immigration
Comments Off on Davos Boss Warns Refugee Crisis Could Be Precursor to Something Much Bigger
Trump & Authoritarianism
A quant-oriented, UMASS, poli-sci guy has one of the rare, valuable, insightful analyses of the Mein Trumpf phenomenon. “The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter” is the title of Matthew MacWilliams’ piece in Politico: If I … Continue reading
Posted in Democrat Party, National, Republican Party
Comments Off on Trump & Authoritarianism
‘Refugee’ Crisis™ => Gender Imbalances
One angle of the ‘Refugee’ Crisis™ that Europe hasn’t yet contemplated is the effect on gender imbalance, and the sociological disruptions that can ensue: Professor Valerie Hudson, a Texas A&M University professor, said gender imbalances could cause serious problems in … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Immigration, Islam
Comments Off on ‘Refugee’ Crisis™ => Gender Imbalances
Feds Spend $406,875 Texting Latino Men To Exercise
From Fox News: The National Institutes of Health is spending more than $400,000 sending text messages to Latino men to encourage them to exercise. The University of California, San Diego is conducting the study, which is attempting to employ the … Continue reading
Gettin’ Meta With Martin
Given that MLK himself plagiarized as a graduate student, what an appropriate way for Mr. Whitaker to celebrate the modern day martyr: A history professor at Arizona State University who was demoted last year following an inquiry into plagiarism accusations … Continue reading
Reflections on Bernard Williams
Nakul Krishna has a well written piece on the late, great, moral philosopher Bernard Williams, one of the giants of 20th century moral philosophy, as told through the lens of his (Krishna’s) own experience as a philosophy grad student: [Morality: … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics
Comments Off on Reflections on Bernard Williams
Eagleton on Hitchens
Terry Eagleton has a lovely tribute to the late Christopher Hitchens. Both are/were men of the Left. Hitchens was a Trotskyite his entire life, but with the iconoclastic flourishes of a Marxist who, post 9/11, embraced (and tried to theoretically … Continue reading
“Morning Joe” Hacks in Disbelief
This footage of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hacks simply blown away by the massive crowds at Der Trumpenfuhrer’s rallies is priceless. Joe: “I was at George W. Bush’s campaign rally in 2004 at the final stages of that unbelievable presidential race … Continue reading
Posted in MSM, Republican Party
Comments Off on “Morning Joe” Hacks in Disbelief
French Jews Fleeing the Mess They Helped Create
In Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission (which I’ll write a review of at some point in the future), there is the character of Myriam, the protagonist’s on-again, off-again girlfriend. Through the novel’s imagined course of political events, Myriam comes to represent … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Jewish, White Identity
Comments Off on French Jews Fleeing the Mess They Helped Create