https://www.undergroundthomist.org/rss en https://www.undergroundthomist.org/on-getting-exactly-what-we-want <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><img alt="" class="media-image" height="480" width="329" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://undergroundthomist.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Greek-stele-mother-baby.jpg?itok=fQHbixe7" /></p> <p> </p> <p>You may have seen the news stories about the two Florida nurses who wished harm on patients with whom they had political disagreements.  Both nurses were afterward disciplined.</p> <p>I would like to make a simple point about those cases, not about “political violence,” but about medical violence.  First a quick review.</p> <p>Registered nurse Erik Martindale posted on Facebook, “I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA [Trump supporters].  It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education.  I own all of my businesses and I can refuse anyone!”  The post was later taken down – Martindale claims he was hacked – but he has been disciplined.</p> <p>Labor and delivery nurse Lexie Lawyer put up a video on social media saying that she hoped White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is pregnant, would suffer a fourth-degree tear during the birth of her baby:  “"I hope you f*cking rip from bow to stern and never sh*t normally again, you c*nt."</p> <p>My point is simple:  <em>What should we have expected </em>when, beginning in the 1970s, we authorized doctors and nurses to kill instead of heal and succor?  Medical schools even <a href="https://doctors.practo.com/the-hippocratic-oath-the-original-and-revised-version/">rewrote the Hippocratic oath</a>, eliminating any divine sanction and replacing the prohibition of abortion and poisoning with weaselly language about how “my power to take a life ... must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.”</p> <p>Once we say that it is all right to take innocent human life, it becomes very difficult to say “But only these reasons, not those reasons.”</p> <p>What kind of world did we think we were making?  A people tends to get exactly what it wants.  It may not like it.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1507 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities-0 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities-0" st_title="Why Scientists, Scholars, and Experts Are Not – and Cannot Be – Neutral Authorities" class="st_email&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities-0" st_title="Why Scientists, Scholars, and Experts Are Not – and Cannot Be – Neutral Authorities" class="st_twitter&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities-0" st_title="Why Scientists, Scholars, and Experts Are Not – and Cannot Be – Neutral Authorities" class="st_googleplus&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities-0" st_title="Why Scientists, Scholars, and Experts Are Not – and Cannot Be – Neutral Authorities" class="st_fblike"></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-external-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">External Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2026/02/09/why_scientists_scholars_and_experts_are_notand_cannot_beneutral_authorities_1163595.html">https://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2026/02/09/why_scientists_scholars_and_e...</a></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1504 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities" st_title="Why Scientists, Scholars, and Experts Are Not – and Cannot Be – Neutral Authorities" class="st_email&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities" st_title="Why Scientists, Scholars, and Experts Are Not – and Cannot Be – Neutral Authorities" class="st_twitter&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities" st_title="Why Scientists, Scholars, and Experts Are Not – and Cannot Be – Neutral Authorities" class="st_googleplus&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-scientists-scholars-and-experts-are-not-%E2%80%93-and-cannot-be-%E2%80%93-neutral-authorities" st_title="Why Scientists, Scholars, and Experts Are Not – and Cannot Be – Neutral Authorities" class="st_fblike"></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-external-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">External Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2026/02/09/why_scientists_scholars_and_experts_are_notand_cannot_beneutral_authorities_1163595.html">https://www.realclearbooks.com/articles/2026/02/09/why_scientists_scholars_and_e...</a></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1503 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-is-there-so-much-lying-in-politics-today <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-is-there-so-much-lying-in-politics-today" st_title="Why Is There So Much Lying in Politics Today?" class="st_email&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-is-there-so-much-lying-in-politics-today" st_title="Why Is There So Much Lying in Politics Today?" class="st_twitter&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-is-there-so-much-lying-in-politics-today" st_title="Why Is There So Much Lying in Politics Today?" class="st_googleplus&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/why-is-there-so-much-lying-in-politics-today" st_title="Why Is There So Much Lying in Politics Today?" class="st_fblike"></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-external-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">External Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2026/02/09/why_is_there_so_much_lying_in_politics_today_691488.html">https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2026/02/09/why_is_there_so_much_lying_in_polit...</a></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1502 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/there-is-only-one-human-nature <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/there-is-only-one-human-nature" st_title="There Is Only One Human Nature" class="st_email&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/there-is-only-one-human-nature" st_title="There Is Only One Human Nature" class="st_twitter&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/there-is-only-one-human-nature" st_title="There Is Only One Human Nature" class="st_googleplus&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/there-is-only-one-human-nature" st_title="There Is Only One Human Nature" class="st_fblike"></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-external-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">External Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/budziszewski-there-is-only-one-human-nature">https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/budziszewski-there-is-only-one-human-nat...</a></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1501 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/speaking-of-reality-men-are-not-women <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/speaking-of-reality-men-are-not-women" st_title="Speaking of Reality: Men Are Not Women" class="st_email&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/speaking-of-reality-men-are-not-women" st_title="Speaking of Reality: Men Are Not Women" class="st_twitter&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/speaking-of-reality-men-are-not-women" st_title="Speaking of Reality: Men Are Not Women" class="st_googleplus&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/speaking-of-reality-men-are-not-women" st_title="Speaking of Reality: Men Are Not Women" class="st_fblike"></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-external-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">External Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/02/07/speaking-of-reality-men-are-not-women/">https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/02/07/speaking-of-reality-men-are-not-women/</a></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1500 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/no-virginia-each-person-does-not-have-his-own-reality <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/no-virginia-each-person-does-not-have-his-own-reality" st_title="No, Virginia, Each Person Does Not Have His Own Reality" class="st_email&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/no-virginia-each-person-does-not-have-his-own-reality" st_title="No, Virginia, Each Person Does Not Have His Own Reality" class="st_twitter&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/no-virginia-each-person-does-not-have-his-own-reality" st_title="No, Virginia, Each Person Does Not Have His Own Reality" class="st_googleplus&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/no-virginia-each-person-does-not-have-his-own-reality" st_title="No, Virginia, Each Person Does Not Have His Own Reality" class="st_fblike"></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-external-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">External Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://spectator.org/no-virginia-each-person-does-not-have-his-own-reality/">https://spectator.org/no-virginia-each-person-does-not-have-his-own-reality/</a></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1499 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/are-we-just-animals-a-tempting-delusion <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/are-we-just-animals-a-tempting-delusion" st_title="Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion" class="st_email&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/are-we-just-animals-a-tempting-delusion" st_title="Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion" class="st_twitter&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/are-we-just-animals-a-tempting-delusion" st_title="Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion" class="st_googleplus&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/are-we-just-animals-a-tempting-delusion" st_title="Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion" class="st_fblike"></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-external-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">External Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/2026/02/are-we-just-animals-a-tempting-delusion/">https://scienceandculture.com/2026/02/are-we-just-animals-a-tempting-delusion/</a></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1498 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/open-our-eyes-a-vaccine-for-the-pandemic-of-lunacy <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/open-our-eyes-a-vaccine-for-the-pandemic-of-lunacy" st_title="Open Our Eyes: A Vaccine for the Pandemic of Lunacy" class="st_email&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/open-our-eyes-a-vaccine-for-the-pandemic-of-lunacy" st_title="Open Our Eyes: A Vaccine for the Pandemic of Lunacy" class="st_twitter&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/open-our-eyes-a-vaccine-for-the-pandemic-of-lunacy" st_title="Open Our Eyes: A Vaccine for the Pandemic of Lunacy" class="st_googleplus&amp;amp;quot"></span> <span st_url="https://www.undergroundthomist.org/article/open-our-eyes-a-vaccine-for-the-pandemic-of-lunacy" st_title="Open Our Eyes: A Vaccine for the Pandemic of Lunacy" class="st_fblike"></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-external-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">External Link:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=39-02-017-v">https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=39-02-017-v</a></div></div></div> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1497 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org https://www.undergroundthomist.org/woke-as-prada <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><img alt="" class="media-image" height="480" width="321" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://undergroundthomist.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/The-right-sort-of-people.jpg?itok=3PuOOb7I" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Wokeness is often thought to be a form of virtue signalling.  This is subtly wrong, for it is more often a kind of status signalling.  The wokist wants to be seen as belonging to “the right kind of people.”  He drapes himself with wokeness the same way that in another day and age people paraded their memberships in prestigious clubs, or that today they flaunt the brands and styles of shoes and clothing that they wear.  If ethics comes into the matter at all, it comes in not via the thought “<em>I would never</em> do that,” but via the thought “<em>I’m not the kind of person </em>who would do that.”  You know, the deplorables.</p> <p>I am not suggesting that such a person is aware of his cravimg for status.  Very few people are fully aware of their own motives.  In a society which professes to believe in equality, and pretends to despise snobbery, it is hard for a snob who knows he is a snob to think well of himself; therefore he has to convince himself that he isn’t a snob.  With its faux concern for The People (most of whom have no interest whatsoever in the cause of woke), wokeness is a convenient way to do that.  My very expensive jeans must have holes in them.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 jbudziszewski 1496 at https://www.undergroundthomist.org