Adding philosophical depth to anything and everything
They helped Trump get elected and now they help the right wing rule How MeidasTouch Network, Adam Mockler, Ron Filipkowski, Ben Meiselas, Brian Tyler Cohen, David Pakman, and the rest of the Fake Left help Trump, Project 2025, Elon Musk, and the rest of the right wing. Text transcript for those […]
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In my years of teaching college courses, I’ve never seen more students struggle so much as in the last two years. That’s especially the case this current year . I have a suspicion as to why this is. One can’t consider everyone in any group as being the same, but there […]
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Partner article to my honest analysis and appraisal of Christianity. This is a subject on which one cannot say anything without receiving hatred in return. Indeed, a number of people haven’t even read this far, already so full of anger at me for daring to touch on this issue. Atheism […]
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Partner article to my honest analysis and appraisal of atheism. Did you know I earned a degree from a seminary? Yes, really. My first master’s degree was from an odd little UCC seminary that was looking for non-Christians to help establish a religious studies program. I’ve never been a Christian, but […]
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My spouse was looking at the label of a very old stuffed toy from her childhood. There it was, the ILGWU label. The song in the TV commercial from our childhood immediately sprang to our minds. “Look for the union label …” Here is that commercial from 1978. “. . . when you […]
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The concept of “Christian” nationalism has been in the news lately. That’s understandable given how often and how much certain groups are pushing the belief that America is a Christian nation and even that it should be an exclusively Christian nation. At least, that’s what they say on their external […]
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My recent article, “The Problem Isn’t Men, It’s Bros,” has been popular with readers, though not with the gatekeepers because I dared to mention tech bros. I won’t repeat the earlier article but will extend it here. I realized a day after the first article that I had forgotten to […]
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Deconstructing prejudice A recent exposé of the male-only Garrick Club in London has shone a light on an age-old feature of human society. People will understandably zero in on Garrick’s male-only membership, but I argue that the issue is less that it is a group restricted to males than it […]
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Hmm, how to think about this Not what I saw, but close I was sitting on my balcony with my coffee and toast watching the pure blue sky. It was a warm July with no discernible breeze and a cloudless sky. I leaned back and blissfully gazed into the infinite blue. […]
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Holy platitudes, Batman! Party like it’s 1956! I’m not religious, but I deeply respect people of faith. Of course, I see the difference between religion and faith. The former is a hierarchical power structure; the latter is personal lived experience. I respect people’s lived experience far more than I respect power […]
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