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 »
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that long ago June 27, 2021
What’s the Secret of Biden’s Success? April 21, 2021
graveyard of empires April 18, 2021
evangelicals April 7, 2021
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the house of the rising sun February 13, 2021
biden dreams August 16, 2020
John R. Lewis (1940 – 2020) July 30, 2020
Eating Olives at the End of the World (essay-34) April 12, 2020
Trump Meets Nemesis, Punisher of Hubris (essay-33) March 14, 2020
I Don’t Hate Women Candidates … (essay-32) March 6, 2020
Forgiveness (essay-31) February 29, 2020
Mike Bloomberg is Hacking Your Attention (essay-30) February 20, 2020
Requiem for a Dream (essay-29) February 7, 2020
Trump’s Election May Have Benn the Shock We Needed (essay-28) November 25, 2019
Why People Hate Religion (essay-27) August 30, 2019
Trump, Taxes and Terrorism (essay-26) August 5, 2019
Shame (essay-24) February 18, 2019
Ramblings (essay-23) January 29, 2019
A Lover’s Quarrel With the World (essay-22) October 26, 2018
The Dying of the Light (essay-21) May 4, 2018
What Will Happen Next (essay-20) February 16, 2018
Love’s Illusions (essay-19) October 6, 2017
Inside the Mind (essay-18) July 18, 2017
Maddow’s Opening Monologue (essay-17) June 30, 2017
War Will Take Care of the Issue (essay-16) May 18, 2017
Madness (essay-15) April 1, 2017
Savage Capitalism (essay-14) March 28, 2017
End of Empire (essay-13B) January 12, 2017
Golden Showers (essay-13A) January 11, 2017
Twilight of the Gods (essay-12) November 11, 2016
Consumerism and Capitalism (essay-11) November 1, 2016
Stereotypes (essay-10) August 28, 2016
Even Losing is Victory (essay-9) August 20, 2016
A List of Grievances (essay-8) August 7, 2016
Don’t Let the Door Hit You In the Ass (essay-7) June 18, 2016
Expectations and Dreams (essay-6) May 29, 2016
Hypocrisy (essay-5) April 20, 2016
Listening for the New-told Lies (essay-4) April 12, 2016
A Beached Whale (essay-3) March 20, 2016
A Real Revolution (essay-2) February 4, 2016
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