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"
E pur si muove!
": "Any yet it does move!" It was said to have been muttered by
Galileo Galilei
after the Roman Inquisition forced him to deny that the Earth moves around the Sun.
Who Am I?
Lester Hunt
I teach philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, but I live in the village of Oregon, about a block from the open countryside.
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-Law Schools are Brain Toilets
-Government is Unfair
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-Nazism or Communism: Which is More Evil?
-The Real Ruling Class
-Philosophy in the Twilight Zone
-You Have no Moral Duty to Buy Health Insurance
-When Can You Say "That's Racist!"?
-Peter Singer's Defense of Death Panels
-William B. Macomber: 1929-2009
-Judges: Don't Rely on Empathy!
-Donald L. Emblen: 1918-2009
-Piracy: The Free Market Solutions
-Western Civ: Not Just a Good Idea
-Causes of the Present Crisis
-Is Being Unregulated the Problem?
-The Fraying of America
-The Godfather: Overrated
-The Rights of Animals and Fetuses: Who Really Believes in Them?
-Where Did All the Westerns Go?
-Why Some of the Worst Candidates are Moderates
-The Conspiracism Posts
-David L. Hunt: 1923-2007
-Islamofascism: More Sloppyspeak
-The Wisdom of Ratatouille
-My Other Car is a 1957 Imperial
-The Most Overrated Novel of the Twentieth Century
-Rude, Surly Teenagers: A Defense
-Why You Should Take Notes
-Eating Animals: An Answer
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The Proposed Indian Creek Wilderness Area: Just About the Worst Idea Yet
Indian Creek: It's About Who is Organized
I Thought These were Good Too, but Few Seemed to Notice
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
What is Terrorism?
Military Tribunals or Civilian Trials?
The "Climate of Hate" Theory
Government Failure
Grey Gardens (2009)
The Ethics of Torture
Economically and Morally, Public Debt is Different
My Lunch with Eddie
The Myth of the Laissez-Faire Hoover
What Will Obocracy Be LIke?
Sylvania Wilderness
My Brush with Universal Health Care
Lessons from "Triumph of the Will"
Photographs: Telescopes of Time
Against Cell Phone Prohibition
The Gourmet is Dead, Long Live the Foodie!
The Cave Painters
Cat's Cradle: Here's One that's Not Overrated
In Nietzsche's Footsteps
Why Zweig Still Matters
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Police Surveillance Drones: Time to Draw a Line?
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The Mass Media: Polluters of the Human Soul?
Moral Thinking in the Real World
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Socialist Santa?
My Favorite Christmas Albums
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What I Learned from Climategate
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The "Wacky" Religious Beliefs of Politicians: Sho...
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Why I am Against the Death Penalty
The Death Penalty: Bad Arguments on Both Sides
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Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?
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Crying Wolf
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Hot Speech and Responsibility for Evil
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Seeing Like a Nanny State
A Libertarian Argument for Drug Prohibition?
Casey Anthony: (Procedural) Justice Was Served
Displaying Old Glory on the Fourth
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d'Indy: High on Mountain Air
Morel Feast!
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Commencement High Jinx
Goodbye to Fat City!
Conspiracism is not Freedom Friendly
The Ethics of the bin Laden Killing
How bin Laden Won
Obama, the Kindly Killer
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Environmental Disasters that Didn't Happen
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