From India with Modi, to Britain with Brexit, to America with Trump, mob rule by demagogues is sweeping the globe, though the complicit commentariat insists on calling it ‘populism.’
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A girl of about 9 slowly makes her way downstream from ‘the beach,’ a small spit of sand in the park at the adjacent site. Carrying a walking stick she…
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Since a grasslands fire swept leapt the creek about a decade ago, the great sycamore on its banks has been slowly dying. Sitting under it now is a reminder that…
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In 1784 Immanuel Kant, responding to a general challenge by a clergyman and official in the Prussian government, wrote an essay entitled, “What Is Enlightenment?” Kant’s essay had great and…
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Anthropologists used to say that the human brain represents “the pinnacle of creation.” No one voices such blatantly anthropocentric things anymore. Human egocentrism now takes subtler forms, such as “for…
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If the events of recent weeks have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality cannot hold sway over the realities of belief and emotional irrationality.…
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If the events of recent days have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of human reason and rationality, which originated in France, cannot hold sway over the chaos…
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A reader from France wrote a sanguine response to my last column about entanglement. His letter attests both to the veracity of the theory of entanglement (‘meditations’ doesn’t appear in…