A disturbing book that’s been touted in the major media in the United States is “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century,”…
Meditations
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There has yet to be an adequate philosophy of evil, much less a scientific explanation of it. The subject is too important, and urgent, to be left to religions and…
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It’s 90 degrees, the warmest day of the year so far in California’s Central Valley. The only beach, if you can call it that, in the park is adjacent to…
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No single factor is more responsible for the rot at the core of American culture than the illusion of individual choice and the separate chooser. Is there another way, another…
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A mini-movement in Canada links that huge but sparsely populated country from East (Halifax) to West (Vancouver). It’s entitled, “Is Hope Bullshit?”
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The most difficult falsehoods to uncover are those that are wrapped in a truth.
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The cliché, ‘being ahead of one’s time’ is easy to say, and tedious to hear. But Robinson Jeffers was truly a poet ahead of his time. Yet his solution to…
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A reader asks, “What does it mean to enter the house of death during meditation?” She wants to know, “Is it really possible to understand and transcend death while fully…