No. 1, "Libertarian pseudoskeptical pseudoscience," about Brian Dunning above all, but also the Novella brothers, Steve Pinker and others, from 2010, most certainly isn't new, but remains very true.
No. 2, "Do you have free will? Is that even a discussable issue?" also from 2010, is an extensive look at a critical area of philosophy.
No. 3, "Texas science ed director resigns over ID-creationist pressure" is even older, from 2007. I suspect it's gained new life due to the recent book bans plaguing public school and community libraries here in Tex-ass.
No. 4, "Antichrist vs the man of lawlessness vs the beast ..." was given new life by me when I posted this New Testament criticism piece to the Academic Biblical subreddit.
No. 5, "No true empiricist? Like no true Scotsman?" from this past year, was a takedown of British philosopher Julian Baggini, whether Scottish or not, over his alleged, but not actual, taking to task of Scottish philosopher David Hume over Hume's racism.
No. 6 is another oldie but goodie, "Say goodbye to History for Atheists." Note to Tim O'Neill: David Kertzer's newest book is yet more reason O'Neill needs to STFU on his attempts to defend the papacy against anti-semitism.
No. 7, "Did Biblical Edom exist? ...", from this past year, talked about the latest in biblical archaeology, and the latest in Israeli biblical archaeology, and the Zionism that appears to be behind some of that, and the Zionism that appears to be behind some of the reporting about it, as the ellipsis points lead you to read the full thing.
No. 8: "Coronavirus, philosophy, the noble lie, and the problem with Dr. Fauci (and his defenders)," written in the middle of 2020, and updated more than once, is indeed about "St. Anthony of Fauci," as I've taken to calling him, and his largely "Blue Anon" defenders, in the face of the big Platonic noble lie he told about masks early in the pandemic (and various less Platonic and less noble likes after that).
No. 9, "Split the log and I am there: Reflections on the Gospel of Thomas and beyond," was inspired by high-country hiking in the Rockies last summer. It includes photography of something that was part of a "secular spiritual experience," multilingual punning and more.
No. 10, "The great ahistoricity of Acts and radical thoughts about Paul's demise," is the third on this list from the past year and is exactly what its title says.
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