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• What’s the Big Deal with Wittgenstein?

  

  I was tickled when my publisher’s catalog displayed my book opposite one by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. As if we’re on a par. Just name-drop Wittgenstein t... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “2034: A Novel of the Next World War”

  

  It starts with an incident in the South China Sea — in this much remarked 2021 novel by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis (head of the prestigious... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• About Those Meal Delivery Service Fees

  

  Not long ago, my local paper editorialized about supposedly exorbitant fees charged by meal delivery services. With many people still using this option, its... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Optimism Reality Check

  

  When I wrote The Case for Rational Optimism in 2008, that case was powerful. My innate optimism intensified by observed reality. The big global story seemed to... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Covid and the Social Contract

  

  Covid will eventually be, more or less, history. Life will renormalize, more or less. But something big has changed in government’s role in people’s economic... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Transgender Wars

  

  Changing gender wasn’t even a thing till the 20th century. This new concept discombobulated many minds, with hostility toward trans people. But now, happily,... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Vaccination and Evangelical Trumpers: The Enemy Within

  

  Since January 20, we finally have a rational national plan for Covid — to vaccinate as fast as possible, to achieve “herd immunity.” That’s when the virus peter... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Police Brutality Shocker in Albany, NY

  

  Faced with protesters against police brutality, how did the Albany police respond? With brutality.I supported Mayor Kathy Sheehan when she first ran, against... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Goodbye, Afghanistan

  

  She’d gotten a new job offer, our daughter Elizabeth said on the phone from Jordan. Asking our opinion. A nice surprise, that she’d ask. “It’s in Afghanistan,”... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Tucker Carlson and “replacement” Racism

  

  United Airlines announced a program to get more diversity in its pilot training. Fox’s Tucker Carlson went on a rant saying all that should matter in the cockpi... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Gal in the New York Times

  

  My daughter, Elizabeth Robinson, has made her debut in the august pages of The New York Times. A letter to the editor, signifying serious chops. Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How to Create a Mind

  

  Humans try to understand our reality. Including how our minds do that. “Futurist” Ray Kurzweil has posited a coming “singularity” when artificial intelligence... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Guns and Republicans: Soft on Crime

  

  “House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Biden is ‘soft on crime’ but tramples Second Amendment rights.”Reading that line in the paper turned my... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Leadership Lessons: How (not) to Get Girls

  

  Governor Andrew Cuomo hungered for feminine companionship. I can relate to that. All his power and glory may not cut it for him without a woman in the picture.... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Minneapolis Trial — What Kind of Nation Are We?

  

  “All men are created equal.” The Supreme Court pediment proclaims “Equal Justice Under Law.” The Constitution begins, “We the people.”We’ve had four years of... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Online Fundraising Reveals a Dishonest, Depraved and Dangerous Party

  

  In 2016 I gave Marco Rubio a small donation. Last year, far more to Democrats. Yet it’s Republican fundraising emails that continue to flood my inbox. On one... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Belief in God is Morally Wrong

  

  In May 2019, Attorney General William Barr, in a speech at Notre Dame, thundered that America is undergoing a moral apocalypse. Which he blamed on irreligion an... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Freedom of Speech and Lies

  

  “Are Jews hidden in your attic?” You answer with a lie.Kant had a categorical take on morality, with lying considered always wrong. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Richard Dawkins’s 80th Birthday Party

  

  Richard Dawkins is one of my intellectual heroes. I was thrilled to be invited to his 80th birthday party, on zoom, with about twenty others; hosted by Robyn... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Europe’s Covidiocy

  

  During 2020, Europe put America to shame regarding Covid, as our president willfully refused to treat it seriously, even encouraging flouting precautions, surel... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY