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August 2012

August 19, 2012
There are no rights in nature, only in a society with a legal system and...
August 19, 2012
My dear young friend,” said Mustapha Mond, “civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or...
August 19, 2012
I don’t want good causes like secularism and skepticism to die because they’re infested with...
August 17, 2012
So there is this small flurry of rumors fluttering about the murkier reaches of the...
August 17, 2012
In the event, we have not only missed a chance to do some good for...
August 05, 2012
I worry a lot. Bad things really do happen. Unexpected things. It’s smart, I think,...

July 2012

July 20, 2012
Considering the maniacal focus I’ve had on the case of Alexander Aan at work, it’d...
July 10, 2012
This is crap: . . as you arrive [at the restaurant], each person places their...
July 08, 2012
A good friend of mine, and a fellow I’ve been honored to share the stage...
July 04, 2012
Inspired by the conversation on the recent edition of John Gruber’s The Talk Show, here’s a...
July 04, 2012
In an email, Maria Spiropulu, a professor at the California Institute of Technology who works...

June 2012

June 29, 2012
There are times (and these times grow ever more frequent) that I begin to worry...
June 28, 2012
Listen to music: If it’s somber or richly produced or instrumented (which is the only...
June 10, 2012
Gary Wills, no knee-jerk liberal he, marks this year’s election as a crucial moment for...
June 03, 2012
I was rather angered by how the tech press handled the Mike Daisey affair. They...
June 03, 2012
George Scialabba, reviewing Morris Berman’s final installment of a trilogy of books diagnosing the ills...

May 2012

May 30, 2012
Long story short: Sam Harris said that we should specifically profile Muslims at airports, not...
May 27, 2012
I’m reading The Essays of Montaigne because, well, it’s there. In discussing friendship, ol’ Michel...
May 27, 2012
ZachsMind just posted a very thoughtful response to a post of mine from a few...
May 24, 2012
The following is a collection of thoughts about air travel that I typed into my...
May 16, 2012
Well will you look at that. Today I began blogging as a contributor to Friendly...
May 10, 2012
I don’t know if Mitt Romney’s cruelty toward those he perceived as weak in high...
May 06, 2012
Charles Wheelan gives some unconventional commencement advice, that, while welcome, I feel misses where the...
May 01, 2012
If I had a dollar for every time someone complained about wage discrimination against women,...

April 2012

April 30, 2012
Stephen Fry, with a hat tip to Kylie Sturgess: A concerto is an argument between...
April 29, 2012
I am highly wary of anyone who would write a book entitled You Are Not...
April 28, 2012
I am in the midst of reading James Gleick’s The Information (and I think I’m...
April 27, 2012
There is a tension that exists between introverts and the extroverts who love them. Extroverts...
April 26, 2012
It’s a long story, so I won’t bore you with it, but suffice it to...
April 19, 2012
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory just figured out that gamma bursts have nothing to do with...
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