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A Golden Example of Antichoicers Lying to Your Face

Richard Carrier — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:38:28 +0000

Just this week a student in one of my online classes answered a test question with a real-world example of trying to manipulate people using numbers and graphs, which they had to debunk. The example they chose (from the course text, Levitin’s Field Guide to Lies) is solid gold; and they directed me to an […]

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Trump-Vance v. Harris-Walz: Comparing Their Official Policy Platforms (Part 2)

Richard Carrier — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 03:04:54 +0000

I will begin this month by completing my political-philosophical analysis of the competing policy platforms of the Presidential regime that We the People will be electing in about a month. I explained what I am doing and set the ground rules in Part 1, and there assessed the Harris-Walz platform (summary | detail). Here I […]

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Trump-Vance vs. Harris-Walz: Comparing Their Official Policy Platforms (Part 1)

Richard Carrier — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:36:21 +0000

I will close this month and begin the next with a political-philosophical analysis of the competing policy platforms of the Presidential regime that We the People will be electing in about a month. This is a blackbox analysis. Meaning, I’m not concerning myself here with any other issues that might affect how one should vote; […]

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How Far Left Is Too Left?

Richard Carrier — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:42:17 +0000

I’m a hardcore lefty. I still encounter people surprised by that. But I also often get asked how far is too far. Today I’ll paint that out for you. This will explain how far left I go—and why I don’t go further, and neither should anyone. At the same time, this is also an accounting […]

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Behold Babylon USA!

Richard Carrier — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:59:37 +0000

No. This isn’t an article about the U.S. Supreme Court allowing Presidents to break the law (you can find my thoughts on that here and here). Nor is it about that cute little town in southern New York. Rather, this is an article about How We Are All Doomed…according to crazy Christian apocalypticists. I’ve been […]

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Debunking John Davidson’s “Pagan” America

Richard Carrier — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:38:42 +0000

Did you know we’re all pagans? That’s right. America is majority pagan. We worship Ishtar and the Onion God and have cool-ass pagan festivals featuring palm fronds and sacred orgies. Public feasts in every town distribute meat and mead, blessed by pagan priestesses in ancient regalia, to all the townsfolk, at public or patriot expense. […]

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How A Personal Fear of Death Might Also Be Driving the Anti-Abortion Delusion

Richard Carrier — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:49:51 +0000

I had a thought recently about abortion ideology that I wanted to explore. I used to think the only prime driver of anti-abortionism is literally just Christian patriarchy (predominately in the West at least; elsewhere it might be Islamic patriarchy). In other words, this is really just a desire to enforce sexist gender norms, lest […]

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Gun Control That’s Science-Based & Constitutional

Richard Carrier — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:13:16 +0000

As a veteran, and yet hard-core lefty with an obsession for evidence-based policy, I’m often asked what my position is on gun control; which is to say, in my country (because that subject isn’t as much of an issue in other developed nations—we are the crazy outlier). As it happens there was a recent article […]

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Dear Christian: You Might Be Worshiping the Antichrist

Richard Carrier — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 19:11:48 +0000

In recent years I came to a revelation: Christians are actually worshipping the Antichrist. Not all Christians, of course. Consider, for example, the Christian youth who come out to me after a presentation to a church group to explain their disappointment with their leaders and how they despise everything their churches preach, obsessing over abortion […]

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We Do Need to Do Something about Global Warming

Richard Carrier — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:13:22 +0000

The headline of this article should be a no-brainer. But there are still too many people who think otherwise, causing little action to be taken, and who are thereby dragging the rest of us into hell—a problem recently made fun of in the movie Don’t Look Up. How do we move that needle? Today I’m […]

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