Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

Links and Headlines: Dark Skies; Misinformation; Critical Thinking; Empathy; Headlines

Posted on Thursday 30 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

There have been a handful of SF novels over the years that include as breaks between the prose sets of futuristic news headlines, to indicate the state of the future world without having to explicate it in detail. Gunn’s The … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Interesting Times

Posted on Saturday 25 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The latest on strategies to avoid long-term calamities, knowing of calamities and lying about them, the US compared to South America and Europe, and Americans’ grasp of reality.

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L&C: About Hospital Workers Who Are Opposed to the Covid Vaccines

Posted on Friday 27 August 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

This headline was striking recently. NYT: A Hospital Finds an Unlikely Group Opposing Vaccination: Its Workers, subtitled, “When a Staten Island hospital implemented a vaccine or testing mandate, some of its staff staged angry protests.”

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Ls&Qs: Denying Reality, Rewriting History

Posted on Friday 16 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

It gets worse and worse.

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Links and Comments: Why People Believe

Posted on Friday 9 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Links from recent weeks, on political themes. The point, as always, isn’t to rag on Republicans or conservatives, it’s to collect case studies on epistemology: how and why people believe what they do. More and more, Republicans and conservatives have … Continue reading →

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L&C: Bamboozled, hoodwinked, led astray

Posted on Friday 9 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

From a long Facebook post by one Thomas Clay Jr. (a journalist and author of at least one book): here.

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Ls&Cs: Utopias; Crises; Paranoia

Posted on Friday 25 June 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

A sidebar article in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine interviews Rutger Bregman. How to Think Like a Utopian. Bregman is a young Dutch historian who wrote UTOPIA FOR REALISTS (which I blogged about here) and more recently HUMANKIND: A … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments 12 April 21

Posted on Monday 12 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Anti-vaxxers and Stop the Steal; Historical animus against Italians, and Irish; Racial replacement theory; Conservatives against democracy.

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Links and Comments: Owning Libs and Tyrannical Government Plots

Posted on Thursday 1 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Republican values and principles; enduring human nature.

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Link and Comments: Covid skeptics and critical thinking

Posted on Monday 15 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, 11 March, Rebecca Onion: COVID Skeptics Don’t Just Need More Critical Thinking, subtitled, Without a shared approach to scientific expertise, “trusting the data” won’t lead us to the same conclusions. This entails the question, What is science? Not everyone … Continue reading →

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