What public intellectual and science fiction giant Isaac Asimov said here has been the subject of a great deal of discussion over the years. It’s what virtually everyone who’s seen the Earth from space says, i.e., “There are no borders.” …
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There Is a Certain Irony in What Mitch McConnell Says Here
We wouldn’t have had Donald Trump in the first place if McConnell hadn’t treated Democrats with gross unfairness.
Humor in Atheism
Over the years, I’ve read the works of many of the top atheists in the English-speaking world: mainly Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. I’ve noticed that, to a person, they have a fairly well-sharpened wit. The guy at …
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How Precisely Was RFK Jr. Chosen for the Job?
Childhood disease deaths have seen a substantial global and U.S. decline over the past century, with rates falling from over 1 in 3 children dying before age five in the early 1900s to roughly 1 in 27 by 2023 globally. …
We’re About to See What Happens When We Reject Medical Science
We’ve been discussing the problems that arise–not so much out of ignorance per se, but through ignorance when it’s empowered to make public policy. If there is one common ingredient to American life under Trump’s second term, it’s the rejection …
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The Meaning of Life
At left is what Noam Chomsky said on this subject when he was a much younger man. Note that this is the essence of what it means to be an existentialist. First, we exist. We make choices, and those choices …
Lessons from Our Ancestors
Virtually all Americans, and plenty of people elsewhere around the world, can recite vast passages from the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz.” When the Scarecrow laments his condition, Dorothy responds that, if somehow a brain could be conferred on …
The Mass of News Reporting in the United States Is Pathetic
Whatever your political stripes, if you’re an American, I urge you occasionally to take in a few minutes of Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, or perhaps some other source of far-right-wing programming that I may have missed. A couple of points …
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Does Trump “Hurt All of Us?”
The answer to the question here is no. There are two solid reasons that tens of millions of American voters still stand behind Trump: 1) A great number of rich people who were tragically born without a moral compass understand …
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Trump’s “MO”
When we look back on the opening of Trump’s second term as U.S. president and try to identify a pattern, something emerges that would have been unthinkable anytime earlier in American history. Apparently without any real thought, and on any …
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