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David Brooks seems to make a logical error
David Brooks, in his latest column, says of Obama’s decision to wage war in Libya, “President Obama took this decision, I’m told, fully aware that there was no political upside while there were enormous political risks.” Obama couldn’t have possibly … Continue reading
A Puzzle about the Halting Problem
(updated at end) I was reading about the halting problem recently, and in trying to understand it, I thought of a question that I can’t figure out the answer to (it is one of these cases where it feels like … Continue reading
What makes established religions so special?
The Justice Dept. is intervening in a case of a Muslim teacher outside Chicago who quit her job because her school would not let her take 3 weeks off at the end of the semester to go to Mecca. The … Continue reading
First Question
Why doesn’t the forcing of Wisconsin’s public employees to join the union violate (in spirit) Article 20, point 2 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “No one may be compelled to belong to an association”? You could argue … Continue reading