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The Illusion of Debate
The Illusion of Debate Hanging Rock, Madison, Indiana I want to disclose a couple of facts regarding the constant focus in many people’s minds of what is considered healthy debate about “renewable,” “clean,” “green,” and “sustainable” energy, electricity, technology, and/or products and services. Those labels are marketing terms, not reality. In other words, they encourage […]
Panicking about societal collapse? Plunder the bookshelves
Panicking about societal collapse? Plunder the bookshelves As civilization seems to be lurching towards a cliff edge, historical case studies are giving way to big data in authors’ search for understanding. Monuments to resilience or collapse? The 800-year-old statues of Easter Island.Credit: Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty In case you missed it, the end is […]
Doom or denial: Is there another path?
Doom or denial: Is there another path? I was recently asked to comment on a dustup between some members of Extinction Rebellion (see Thomas Nicholas, Galen Hall, and Colleen Schmidt, “The Faulty Science, Doomism, and Flawed Conclusions of Deep Adaptation”) and Jem Bendell, founder of Deep Adaptation (see his “Letter to Deep Adaptation Advocate Volunteers […]
Rethinking the Fed’s 2% Inflation Target: Spotlight On an Absurd Debate
Rethinking the Fed’s 2% Inflation Target: Spotlight On an Absurd Debate Is the Fed’s 2% inflation target too high or too low? That’s the big debate now amongst central bankers. The Wall Street Journal reports Policy Makers Rethink a 2% Inflation Target. From Ottawa to Oslo, policy makers have been considering whether that level of […]
Lunatic Politics (Part 2) – It’s Becoming Impossible to Have a Conversation
Lunatic Politics (Part 2) – It’s Becoming Impossible to Have a Conversation More and more people are becoming aware of and concerned about the level of political dialogue going on right now. We’ve gotten to a point where I’m seeing almost no intelligent debate about any serious issue. Russiagate now consumes such a massive amount […]
A Rhetorical Education
A Rhetorical Education Quite a bit of the discussion on this blog and its predecessors has focused on controversial issues, the kind of thing that causes rhetoric to fly fast and thick. Given the themes I like to discuss in these essays, that could hardly have been avoided. Ours is an age riven by disputes, […]
Noam Chomsky and The War on Straight Answers
Noam Chomsky and The War on Straight Answers In the wake of Donald Trump’s shocking pledge: “You will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center,” many Americans may find themselves staring into the abyss. The implication has reached the mainstream, that we do not exactly know who was behind the September 11th attacks, which are trotted […]
The Deceptive Debate Over What Causes Terrorism Against the West
The Deceptive Debate Over What Causes Terrorism Against the West Ever since members of the UK Labour Party in September elected Jeremy Corbyn as party leader by a landslide, British political and media elites have acted as though their stately manors have been invaded by hordes of gauche, marauding serfs. They have waged a relentless and undisguised […]
How to Properly Debate a Non Prepper
How to Properly Debate a Non Prepper Let me start by saying that I almost never do this. I hate giving people a hard time for their opinions, even if they’re wildly divergent from my own. But sometimes, people say things that are so baseless and ignorant, they demand a response. Such is the case […]
