1. Jerry Pournelle, science-fiction author extraordinaire, has died . I'm more affected by this than I can justify. I wrote over at Agen...

Daniel J. Boorstin  was a historian and Librarian of Congress . He is known among historians of science for his absurd claims about the flat...

We visited the seaside at Hythe in Kent, one of the five Cinque ports, on Saturday. Hythe is a pleasant little market town, although nothing...

Although my new book is on What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax , I have been contributing to various books on the history of science, and ...

I have a new book out called What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax . In it I take look at the UK tax system and provide non-specialist reade...

Some University of Washington philosophers are teaching a course this coming spring term on critical thinking. A very specific aspect of cri...

Readers of the blog come from all over the world and they may have heard some surprising tidings from the United Kingdom over the last f...

My first book was just published . It's about the various arguments to the effect that determinism and/or naturalism are self-defeating....

I just read a great short story that some of you might like. It's a combination detective story, hard science fiction, and the history o...

The account of Noah and the flood is one of those Bible passages held up as being inconsistent with contemporary science -- probably only th...