On Saturday, in response to a question from ESPN’s Mark Saxon, Dexter Fowler voiced his opposition to the Trump administration’s failed attempt to ban entry to the U.S. by nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, where his wife Darya was born and many of his extended family still live. The story got picked up on social […]
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Returning to Busch Stadium for the first time since choosing the Cubs over the Cardinals this past offseason, Jason Heyward stepped up to the plate Monday night and was booed by morons. It was hardly unanimous—there were a few cheers, too, and most fans looked like they were choosing to do neither—but it was significant. […]
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Ten years ago, Oxford University philosopher Nicholas Shackel published a controversial paper that critiqued the overreliance of postmodernist analysis—wait, stop, come back—on what he called “motte-and-bailey doctrines.” The name comes from a style of medieval fortification—stay with me, we’re almost through this—that Shackel describes as follows: Being dark and dank, the Motte is not a […]
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