Will Patterson, PhD

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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Maybe Dems also care about the lives of the people affected - both recipients of benefits and the patriotic Americans of USAID, America’s standing in the world, and our national security…in addition to politics. Strange concept I know.

Giraffes on the side of the road as I drove home yesterday.

I’ve been blocked on FB by actor William Zabka for pointing out his false claims that the government cancelled insurance in California. It was in fact the decision of private insurance companies who either raised their rates or cancelled policies in areas made higher risk due to climate change.

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The planet just broke another heat record in 2024 and we are still electing climate deniers.

Earth breaks yearly heat record and lurches past dangerous warming threshold Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold

"Earth breaks yearly heat record and lurches past dangerous warming threshold" by Seth Borenstein for the @apnews.com: www.wftv.com/news/world/e...

Exiled Mozambique leader returns after months of violence in bid for power Venâncio Mondlane holds ‘inauguration’ at airport amid fears that deadly stand-off with ruling party could destabilise region

Exiled Mozambique leader returns after months of violence in bid for power

https://www.ft.com/content/ece9753c-9454-409e-9804-d2d4132cf335

In 2019 I gave an Inaugural Lecture for the Oxford Chair I’ve recently stepped down from: The Alfred Landecker Chair of Values and Public Policy. “Political Ideology of the 1930s: Lessons for the 2020s.” Was hoping by now it would be obsolete. Sadly not.

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My signed photo of Sean Astin. Goonies never die!

William Patterson Author of Democratic Counterinsurgents, Markets and Conflict, and Christianity Is Not Great

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At the Raina Museum in Madrid.

Jazz Festival Madrid 2024, The Cyrus Chestnut Trio

Great magic show! El Mago Pop in Madrid!

The problem of the distribution of evil and a fluctuating maximal god - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion With the goal of explaining the maldistribution of evil in the world, Asha Lancaster-Thomas has recently (2023) expounded upon the idea of a fluctuating maximal God (FMG) that she and others developed...

My latest article on the problem of evil is published with International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

“The Problem of the Distribution of Evil and a Fluctuating Maximal God.”

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