Tag: Columbia University
Darwin, Marx, and Something Called Political “Science”
A central progressive theme was historicism, crediting history almost exclusively with the development of culture.
“The Ultimate Bootstrap”
Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter.
Post-Modern Physics: String Theory Gets Over the Need for Evidence
String theory, which took root in the 1970s, proposes that “all objects in our universe are composed of vibrating filaments (strings) and membranes (branes) of energy.”
Cosmology Is Naturalism’s Playground. But Does the Fun Mask a Science Decline?
Cosmology has become an art form. Stylish essays are decked out with a very brief skirt of science.
How Naturalism Rots Science from the Head Down
The prevalence of, for example, fake physics, shows that we are in the midst of a philosophical decline.