Lost Connections
Lost Connection Every so often I read an article or a book that seems to capture the current moment and does so in a [...]
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02, 2026
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01, 2026
Resolved
Are you resolved? Here we are at the beginning of the year, the time when convention suggests we should begin again by wiping the [...]
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12, 2025
Cruising
Cruising In an age when words take on increasingly diverse meanings, it can be challenging to make the nature of your intended topic clear. [...]
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12, 2025
Inevitability
Inevitability There is a popular strategy in looking back at past events to wonder ‘if only …’. It’s tricky. Any speculation about what could [...]
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10, 2025
Six Great Ideas
Six Great Ideas I wonder if anyone reads Mortimer Adler today. For a while he was an influential and also popular philosopher, often referred [...]
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08, 2025
The Culture of Hope
The Culture of Hope As I see it, destiny was determined to make Frederick Turner of interest. Born in England on 19 November 1943, [...]
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08, 2025
The Soul: History of the Mind
DD83 - The Soul: A History of the Human Mind Paul Ham’s 2024 book, The Soul, is described as a deep dive into history [...]
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07, 2025
Dancing Cockatoos
DD60 - Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test Sometimes I read something that comes to me from ‘out of left field’. It’s an [...]
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07, 2025
DD79 – The Honor Code
DD79 – The Honor Code There are some words that give us pause for thought, because their meanings turn out to be tricky, rather [...]
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06, 2025
Why Pain is Necessary
Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary I’ve broken my usual rule, and copied this extract from an article with the same name [...]
