How the NSA Killed God, by Oxycodone
A majority of Americans approve of the National Security Administration’s (NSA) surveillance programs aimed at U.S. citizens with 56 percent of Americans...
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Cheap Thrills
When philosophers talk about the beautiful and the sublime, they don’t mean those terms in the way of common parlance (meaning, respectively, pretty and supreme). They...
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The Idol of Technology and the Fear of Bears
In the last ten years there has been an average of just under 3 fatalities by bear mauling per year in North America. The last death by the paws of a grizzly in...
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You’re wrong! Do you know why?
I am the kind of person who tends to think I’m right about everything. I have great confidence in my own correctness, remarkably unfettered by past experience. I may...
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The Poet and the Philosopher: Enemies or Allies?
As The Sound of Music’s Maria Rainer once advised, “let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start”. In the tradition of Western philosophy, to which...
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Rats, Words, and the Human World
In 2010 Radiolab ran a story on words, the first act of which was titled “Words that Change the World” (if you don’t know what Radiolab is, you should check it out—it’s...
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