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• Ketanji Brown Jackson Versus the Republican Slime Squad

  

  Republican senators in the Jackson confirmation hearings were an abominable disgrace. I am shocked, shocked.An Exceptional Merit award goes to Lindsay Graham. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Being You – The “Hard Problem” of Consciousness

  

  What is it Like to Be a Bat?” was a seminal paper by philosopher Thomas Nagel. Implying bats experience their battiness. Like we experience our own existence.... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine Versus Russia Versus the West

  

  Issues are not usually black and white but shades of grey; not good versus evil. Not so with Russia’s Ukraine atrocity. There’s talk of the International... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Dalai Lama: Ethics for the New Millennium

  

  This 1999 book says nothing remarkable. That’s what’s remarkable about it.The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) is known as a religious or spiritual leader. Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Espically Stupid

  

  As a lover of language, I’m always pleased to encounter a fun new word. So it was with a recent column by economist Paul Krugman, writing that a Republican... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine – The Nuclear Option

  

  I’ve written about the power imbalance between good and evil. It’s because the good are constrained by moral scruples, while the evil are not. I was writing... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Rational Pessimist

  

  My blog, “The Rational Optimist,” was started in 2008 while writing my book The Case for Rational Optimism. That now seems long ago, in far-away galaxy. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Tyranny of Merit — And Trumpist Revolt of the Losers

  

  What is justice? People getting what they deserve — for good or ill. Thus talents and efforts being rewarded. That’s meritocracy.But meritocracy has a... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• We Are All Ukrainians — Humanism Against the Wolves

  

  Humanist philosophy centers on humans, and our well-being. One human characteristic is tribalism. I see my tribe as humanity, a tribe I love. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine and the Abyss

  

  A lot of the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons were stored in Ukraine. Thus when the USSR broke up, an independent Ukraine found itself with the world’s third... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Alice Green: We Who Believe in Freedom

  

  Teenaged Alice and her best friend got summer jobs at an Adirondack resort, looking forward to bunking together. The friend was shown a lovely room in the main... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Brewing (Non-Metaphorical) Civil War

  

  America is polarized between two tribes each seeing the other as threatening everything good and holy. That’s not news. However, the two sides are not mirror... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Pandemic of Unvaccinated Fools

  

  Every day the local paper reports on the county’s Covid numbers — cases, hospitalizations, deaths. Rarely does the word “unvaccinated” appear. As though hiding... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine: Nearing September 1, 1939?

  

  On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France immediately went to war. It ended badly for Hitler and Germany. Will Putin, knowing that... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• American Dystopia: Inverted Trumpian Reality

  

  We’re heading into a “systems collapse,” of the societal structures underpinning our very way of life. The culprit? “Hard Left ‘woke’ ideology.” So says Victor... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fake Vaccination Cards

  

  Two Long Island nurses have been charged with scamming over $1.5 million selling forged vaccination cards. Reading about this, a few things struck me.They... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Would I Kill Him If I Could?

  

  A radio interview with scientist Robert Sapolsky shocked me. My humanist book group was currently discussing his tome on human behavior. Sapolsky spoke of his... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• El Exigente at the NY International Coin Show

  

  The New York International Coin Show is the premier event. It used to be each December; until 2001 when there was a little problem with the location — the... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Biden in The Winter of Our Discontent

  

  The commentariat’s hair is on fire over the seeming failure of President Biden, his administration, and his Democratic party, with polls showing dismal... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Noise: Noisier Than We Think

  

  The word “noise” has a special meaning in fields like statistics. Referring to all the reasons why some result deviates from the ideal; like an incorrect... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY