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Why Diversity Destroys Social Capital, part I 27 Jan 2013 | 03:52 am
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In 2007 Harvard researcher Robert Putnam published the results of his long-awaited research which showed that increased diversity lead to a ...
Why Diversity Destroys Social Capital, part II. Social Capital 27 Jan 2013 | 03:51 am
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 With this framework in mind we can now begin to apply it to the question of social capital. It is important to understand that stabilizing ...
Why Diversity Reduces Social Capital, part III. Bridging Social Capital: Historical Kinds and Cultural Homeostasis 27 Jan 2013 | 03:50 am
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Throughout this article I have assumed that there is only one model of diversity, what we might call micro-level or inter-personal diversity...
Merry Christmas! 16 Dec 2012 | 08:47 pm
I’m afraid to say that I had fallen away from religion for many years. I came away from all those years of Sunday school with little else than a bunch of "thou shalt nots" and seemingly meaningless ol...
Presidential Election 20 Oct 2011 | 01:00 pm
I've been thinking about the candidates in the Presidential election and have come to the conclusion that they all share the same basic point of view which I would call the 60s mindset. This is the vi...
The Child Production Problem Prevention Pact 27 Jun 2011 | 04:22 am
I have been noticing that there are a number of problems in society. One is that there are lots of children who are being produced and not cared for. In many places around the world children are aband...
10 Answers to Arguments in Favor of Gay Marriage 24 Jun 2011 | 12:49 pm
I have argued in the previous post that marriage is a social institution with the function to prevent the problems of heterosexual intercourse, namely, the production of children. People will agree th...
The Function of Marriage 23 Jun 2011 | 10:26 pm
If you’ve read this blog you know that I am interested in the nature of functions. The contemporary understanding is that items have a function in virtue of possessing a certain history; a history of ...
Three Magic Words of Liberalism: Inclusivity, Diversity, Tolerance 3 Apr 2011 | 03:08 pm
There are three magic words of modern cultural liberalism: diversity, inclusivity, tolerance. Liberals invoke these words because they feel that they can automatically win any argument by invoking the...
Republicans,ugh. 20 Feb 2011 | 01:42 am
What can you do when you live in a time and place that only has the political parties we do? I guess all you can do is start a blog called A Pox on Both Your Houses and hope for the best. I actually h...
