Are spirits in the material world
I don’t believe in life after death. There is life, here, in this world, and death both is and signals the end of life. Now, is there something else, after life? That, I don’t know. If there is...
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How may I be irritated? Let me count the ways: *Irritation due to disagreement: This may be further divided into partisan (of any sort), preference-based, and personal disagreement, but it is just as...
View ArticleBrave companion of the road
Is it better to be consistent than inconsistent? What about contradiction and hypocrisy: what is the merit or demerit of such concepts? Ta-Nehisi Coates has been carrying on a long conversation with...
View ArticleWhat are words for?
A few words about words: Privilege. I have used this word, and will continue to do so in the context of “privileges and liberties” and “privileges and/versus rights” and “privileged information”. I...
View ArticleTry to see it your way
I am not, as you know, a particularly religious person. An agnostic, I believe I have called myself on severaleventy occasions. A-gnostic, as in, I lack knowledge [about matters of God]; skeptic...
View ArticleYou should wear with pride the scars on your skin
Christopher Hitchens and Vaclav Havel died this past weekend. Both men were writers deeply engaged in the politics of our time; one was more in love with words than ideas, the other, the other way...
View ArticleMayan campaign mashup 2012: We belong together
Yeah, he’s pretty good, isn’t he? President Obama lacked the jocular wit of Clinton—who, despite some meanderings, pretty much killed it last night—but Obama’s got that (forgive the cliche) steely gaze...
View ArticleJust sitting on your porch
So I had this post in my head about understanding and not understanding and agnosticism and religion and politics and empathic imagination. . . . It’s still there, and there it remains, at least for...
View ArticleI turn to my computer like a friend
This isn’t creepy at all: Language, [Ray Kurzweil] believes, is the key to everything. “And my project is ultimately to base search on really understanding what the language means. When you write an...
View ArticleO the dragons are gonna fly tonight
I. I understand the difference between unintentionally and intentionally killing someone, I do. I understand that Hamas fires off rockets with the intention of killing Israelis, military & civilian...
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What a dick: It should be noted that Dreher is adding this comment to a long post criticizing both Ta-Nehisi’s recent essay on learning French and on his “Blue Period” generally. I think Dreher...
View ArticleHush, hush, keep it down now
Over 8 years ago the economist Robin Hanson wrote a post on “gentle silent rape.” It was a thought experiment, an attempt to understand why rape is punished more often and severely than cuckoldry,...
View ArticleYou see, got my brother down cause it’s nothing to me
I have nothing to say about the racist bag of maggots currently befouling the White House—nothing beyond curses and sputtering, that is. He’s a terrible man and a terrible president with terrible...
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