Ibis of Aporia
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05-07-2021 01:04:50
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I had the good fortune to appear on Biblical Time Machine to talk about my work on the gospels and the field of biblical studies. Please check it out and my thanks to Dave and Helen for being such excellent hosts! 🤓 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rea…
Robert Leider Same with Ed Baptist's the Half Has Never Been Told. It's full of misrepresented evidence, factual errors, false statistics etc that leading experts on the economics of slavery dissected and exposed. But it didn't matter to historians, who like its politics and showered it with
Robert Leider Sorry to be blunt, but the history profession has serious reputational problems right now that are almost entiterly self-inflicted and entirely due to an ideological echo chamber within the discipline that privileges left wing politics and covers up outright scholarly misconduct.
In chapter 3 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Jason Crawford makes the case for celebrating human achievement against the currents of anti-humanism that run through society. Read his thoughtful feature now on Freethink. freethink.com/culture/techno…
🐕 Chris Freiman Scott Lincicome Here's from a more recent paper 2009: "Can unionization account for the trend in hours? Panel C shows the unionization rate. Despite a spike in the early 1920s, the noticeable movement appears to take place during the great depression. At this time, the trend in hours was
My piece from a recent book on Free Speech, now available online: newideal.aynrand.org/free-speech-as… via Ayn Rand Institute