Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist? by Sam Kean, 3 Quarks Daily Oct 1, 2009
Any of the arguments above would apply a fortiori if civilization breaks down worldwide in the next few millennia, whether through disease, overpopulation, an asteroid impact, or a prolonged war. If any of those things happen, well seem especially archaic, and any of our achievements will seem as remote and unlikely to earthlings in 6000 AD as the tales of Homer do today. (Harper's Magazine)
The Supreme Court Breakfast Table Jun 30, 2009
He writes: "If an employer cannot rescore a test based on the candidates' race [citing the Title VII provision], then it follows a fortiori that it may not take the greater step of discarding the test altogether to achieve a more desirable racial distribution of promotion-eligible candidates ... ". This is wrong. (Slate)
What Would Burke Do? Apr 28, 2009
As Coleridge writes, Christianity, and a fortiori any particular scheme of Theology derived and supposed (by its partizans) to be deduced from Christianity, [is] no essential part of the Being of the National Church, however conducive or even indispensable it may be to its well-being; Its being, or essence, is in the preservation of culture. For his part, Matthew Arnold in Culture and Anarchy proposed a dramatic solution for low church Protestantism s culturally schismatic tendencies establish... (The American Conservative)
The gods are stupid Apr 1, 2009
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs. A man came to the caliph claiming to be a prophet, goes a 9th-century joke. (Asia Times Online)
Zimbabwe: MDC Calls for Mengistu to Be Extradited Back to Ethiopia Feb 8, 2009
A fortiori, none of the leaders of the democratic Soveriegn State of Zimbabwe can be credibly characterized as a "dictator.". Of course, Zimbabwe may be characterized as a "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" by shipwrecked Marxist academic theorists. (allAfrica.com)
