DISQUS

Holbo's passage should be listed as an example next to the dictionary definition of "straw man argument." Doesn't dignify a response

That last, ungrammatical sentence should be: "it doesn't deserve to be dignified with a response."

God, I'm a moron.

The phrase is plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose


This is why no one can trust what you write.

Willem Buiter argues forcefully in the Financial Times that post-Lucas Macro is (1) irrelevant and (2) a failure

http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/03/the-unfor...

Such savage and merciless sarcasm is uncalled for (but hilarious nonetheless).

I guess that J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Hobbes, Saul Kripke, Derek Parfit, etc.--since they lack Ph.Ds in philosophy--aren't real philosophers, either.

As for Brian Leiter and Gerald (Not Ronald!) Dworkin: I've read both of their work and--what can I say?--it's good.

You'd think that people who were smart enough to learn some political philosophy would also be able to grasp the basic tenets of civil deliberation between interlocutors deserving of respect. Maybe it should be the next item on their research programs.

Their childishness is ridiculous and a little sad.

Maybe this has something to do with the fact that Mr. Deity has an anti-God theme and is therefore too hot to handle?

Does this problem exist for comparable but less inflammatory shows?

My uninformed hunch is that someone is trying to do something interesting but is scared of offending religious sensibilities...