California’s new cultural competency requirement for pharmacists is totalitarianism based on the hierarchy of race, sex, and gender.
Brendan Patrick Purdy
If the state can seize citizens' arms at will, all property rights are at risk.
A mathematical understanding of Ranked Choice Voting reveals its theoretical and practical flaws.
Statistics can have value, even when statisticians hold morally abhorrent views.
Machines are now able to beat human opponents in chess, Go, and other games of strategy. Nevertheless, humans are still the true players.
Beer and gin are two of humanity’s great elixirs.
Can we have cybersecurity without losing our liberty?
Thomas Sowell predicted the unconstrained response of the government to the COVID crisis.
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence also serves as a warning to be skeptical of the predictions of experts.
Lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing rules that apply to everyone are not effective tools against Covid, but what are they really for?
Science’s successes are, in part, what make it so susceptible to the problems that plague it today.
Both Bosch's waking and sleeping moments are haunted by the victims whose murders have not been solved.
Scott Soames demonstrates how analytical philosophy shaped our world, but slights phenomenology and religion.
Hall and Charles gives us the tools that we need to evaluate the difficult questions surrounding the decision to make war.
Americans desire to keep their guns, religion, and other rights because they are still Americans—attached to their liberties and willing to defend them.
We use metrics to assess everything, but measurement does not always equal wisdom.
For public debate to be productive, we need clear frameworks for analysis, and this is especially true of discussions about gun control.
Brendan Patrick Purdy is a philosophically-minded mathematician and data scientist who lives in Ventura County, CA. His Twitter handle is @brendanavigator.