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LQCs: Whose Religious Freedom?

Posted on Saturday 7 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has this opinion piece about religious freedom. San Francisco Chronicle, Daniel Bogard and Tana Senn, 6 May 2022: Supreme Court’s Roe ruling would trample the religious freedom of every Jewish American

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Ls&Cs: The Fiction Novel

Posted on Friday 17 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

About how language changes, how some cultural assumptions are common among some but unknown by others, and how some people don’t know any of the things that anyone reading this blog know. With my own personal experiences of such matters, … Continue reading →

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L&Cs: Jill Lepore on Muskism and Science Fiction

Posted on Sunday 7 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Just one item today, after a long afternoon with a screaming baby.

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Ls&Cs: Problem-Solving, Ethics, Out-Group Prejudice, and Padding Bestseller Lists

Posted on Monday 11 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Several links that I collected on April 20th, the day I went to the hospital for what led to my heart transplant.

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Yuval Noah Harari, SAPIENS: A Brief History of Humankind (2015)

Posted on Sunday 2 February 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

Yuval Noah Harari, SAPIENS: A Brief History of Humankind (2015) This is a history of the human species in the context of “Big History” – the first page sketches the history of the entire universe as a backdrop – and … Continue reading →

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Richard Dawkins: OUTGROWING GOD: A Beginner’s Guide (2019)

Posted on Wednesday 30 October 2019 by Mark R. Kelly

This book, clearly aimed at younger readers, repeats many of themes from his earlier 2006 book THE GOD DELUSION, boiled down and made even more pointed. The first part of the book is structured as a series of “but what … Continue reading →

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NF Reviews

Posted on Thursday 13 June 2019 by Mark R. Kelly

Reviews posted on this blog, from 2013 up to Sep 2022: Adler, Martimer J., & Charles Van Doren. 1940/1972. How to Read a Book. Touchstone. **** Classic guide to being systematic in one’s approach to reading books, beyond “elementary reading.” … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Why I am Not a Conservative

Posted on Wednesday 15 August 2018 by Mark R. Kelly

Every once in a while an op-ed in the New York Times, or a book review in NYT or PW (Publishers Weekly), will be on the subject of defending conservative values. I have a very basic intellectual grasp of what … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Reviews of Books about Religion and Science

Posted on Monday 23 October 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

NY Times: “Ivory Tower” column review of three university press books on religion: Unknown Unknowns: Three Inquiries Into Religion, by James Ryerson. The most interesting of the three seems to be the first, Tim Crane’s THE MEANING OF BELIEF: Religion … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Conservative Authoritarianism, Mysticism, and Selective History

Posted on Wednesday 26 July 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Right Wing Watch: Breitbart Editor: The Goal Is The ‘Full Destruction And Elimination Of The Entire Mainstream Media’ That is, an authoritarian, conservative government that determines the truth, and no one else is allowed to say respond or criticize, or … Continue reading →

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