commentary

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How Landscapes Shape the Way We Think October 24, 2023 I began wondering about the relationship of places and ideas — how places can open up the way we think and feel, and give access to minds, however distant and strange. I realized then that philosophy has a geography. To be in the places these thinkers knew, visit their cities, sail their seas and find their landscapes is to know something about them that cannot be found otherwise; and despite that locatedness, and despite their age, the frame of mind of these first thinkers remains astonishingly and surprisingly illuminating today. Continue reading »

wartime partnership February 24, 2023
Nancy Pelosi January 22, 2023
Zelensky December 21, 2022
Adriatic October 10, 2022
Biden - Statuary Hall January 6, 2022
defiant September 3, 2021

credit not blame August 30, 2021
that long ago June 27, 2021
graveyard of empires April 18, 2021
evangelicals April 7, 2021
ezra klein March 4, 2021
the house of the rising sun February 13, 2021
biden dreams August 16, 2020
Forgiveness (essay-31) February 29, 2020
Shame (essay-24) February 18, 2019
Ramblings (essay-23) January 29, 2019
Madness (essay-15) April 1, 2017
End of Empire (essay-13B) January 12, 2017
Stereotypes (essay-10) August 28, 2016
Hypocrisy (essay-5) April 20, 2016
Dual Citizenship (essay-1) November 27, 2014