Richard Carrier Blogs

Hang Out at the Queen Vic in DC!

Richard Carrier — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:27:22 +0000

Thanks to my call out last week, I have a host providing me a place to stay, sufficient funds to cover my expenses, and a venue for my book signing on Friday evening, June 6. If you want to know why I am marching for veterans that day and why it’s important, or even want […]

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Help Me Join the June 6 Veteran’s Rally in DC!

Richard Carrier — Tue, 06 May 2025 17:03:41 +0000

This is an important one to me. My service was an eon ago but it still affects me to this day. And what’s happening now needs attention. See below for what I need. But here’s why… Hundreds of thousands of veterans (half of them disabled) are losing their jobs, including 86,000 jobs at the VA […]

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We Might Be Living in a Diasimocracy

Richard Carrier — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:13:50 +0000

Philosopher Douglas Giles recently advanced an intriguing hypothesis in “Our World Is a Diasimocracy.” His entire article is a good, tight brief and worth reading in its entirety. And what I will discuss here will all be my own thoughts and claims about that (so don’t blame him for it!). But the gist of his […]

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Is Gynocentrism a Thing?

Richard Carrier — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:02:41 +0000

I was hired to critique a popular video in the manosphere, Traditionalism and Feminism, the Great Gynocentrisms of Our Time. It’s 12-years old but still being commented on and at 60,000 views and counting. Its host, Barbarossa (or Barbar), is no longer active online—because, as a black (“Afro-Latino”) man, he was getting uncomfortable with the […]

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Did Judas Exist?

Richard Carrier — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:59:07 +0000

Bart Ehrman has strangely committed a lot of resources to defending the historicity of Judas. I say strange because most mainstream historians would be perplexed by this. Judas is obviously a fictional character. Christians need him to be real because they need the Gospel story to be true at least in outline, lest they admit […]

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(Last) Remarks on Richard Carrier’s ‘Thorough Fisk’

Richard Carrier — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:02:04 +0000

I offered to publish replies from Fernando Bermejo-Rubio and Franco Tommasi to my article A Thorough Fisk of the Arguments of Fernando Bermejo-Rubio and Franco Tommasi (and these will be linked there). They each provided their own reply. First up and in detail is Bermejo-Rubio. Franco Tommasi then adds his own brief remarks. If I […]

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My Monthly Recommendation: Three Guides for Philosophers

Richard Carrier — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:37:10 +0000

Every month I will write about something I recommend buying and why. I am an Amazon Associate, so if you click through the sales link in any of these brief recommendation blogs (like today’s), I will get a commission on everything in your cart when you check out (even if you don’t buy the thing […]

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The Weird Fruit Mystery (Correcting a Sentence in My Survey of Roman Science)

Richard Carrier — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:07:33 +0000

An attentive reader caught an error in my book on The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire (which was based on my Columbia university dissertation). It actually involves a Weird Fruit Mystery. So this article will serve as a corrective footnote, and a solution to the mystery! In my book I have a whole chapter […]

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A Thorough Fisk of the Arguments of Fernando Bermejo-Rubio and Franco Tommasi

Richard Carrier — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:27:00 +0000

I just published the English edition of my debate with Fernando Bermejo-Rubio and Franco Tommasi, Jesus: Militant or Nonexistent? Two Views Compared (Philosophy Press, 2025), including a chapter by Robert Price, and originally published in Italian as Gesù resistente Gesù inesistente: Due visioni a confronto (Manni, 2022). See last week’s announcement for a description and […]

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My New Book! Jesus: Militant or Nonexistent? Two Views Compared

Richard Carrier — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:55:57 +0000

I just published the English edition of my debate with Fernando Bermejo-Rubio and Franco Tommasi, Jesus: Militant or Nonexistent? Two Views Compared (Philosophy Press, 2025), including a chapter by Robert Price, and originally published in Italian as Gesù resistente Gesù inesistente: Due visioni a confronto (Manni, 2022). There we composed a written debate, meeting assigned […]

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