Tweets — news stories and opinion
Quotes — the latest: June 25
First Thoughts — like admitting ignorance being a step toward rationality
Philosophers — includes Gary Gutting, Susan Haack, Socrates, Wittgenstein and others
Other People — includes Alice Walker, Putin, Ernest Hemingway, Steve Jobs
Science — neuroscience, biology, computers versus imagination; math and numbers; space and time
Government and Politics — Aristotle, coercion, conflicting moralities, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, freedom
Morality — includes Moral Relativism and Sam Harris, Morality and Modern Government
Other Philosophy issues — includes atheism & agnositicsm, accident, subjectivity and abstractions, antinomies
Books — most recent: Trusting Doubt, by Valerie Tarico (published 2010)
Considering the Past — Bang, biology, early religion, Hellenism, Rome | the Middle Ages | China's monarchical successions, to the Ming Dynasty | the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries | Empire and the World Wars | After 1945
Subject Timeline since 2013 — mostly political developments
RECENT
19 Jul – Russian Corruption, US Sanctions and Putin
14 Jul – Alexander Dugin and Putin against Western Culture
10 Jul – (Other People) Vasily Rozanov: A Russian rightwing writer one hundred years ago
1 Jul – Fewer Births and a Population-Taxation Imbalance
21 Jun – ISIS and Bush Administration BS
14 Jun – science: Spacetime and Black Holes, by Scientific America
19 May – history: Japan, Empire and War, to 1941
16 May – Reading Project 1917
8 May – Political impurity in a divided France and the United States
23 Apr – David Brooks and the "Crisis of Western Civilization"
12 Apr – Confusion and Passion, 1917, 2017
10 Apr – Syria, Libya, Trump, Coulter, et cetera
3 Apr – President Wilson making the world safe for democracy, April 1917
28 Mar – Trump fixing government with Kushner's business ideas
17 Mar – Arnold Toynbee, Civilization, and Steve Bannon's Intellect
2 Mar – Murder and North Korea's Royal Family
26 Feb – Bannon at CPAC
22 Feb – Trump, Limbaugh and the Media controversy
20 Feb – Bannon's Fight to Save Civilization
16 Feb – Chief Strategist Bannon and History Lessons
13 Feb – The Ruling Elite, White Supremicists and Anti-Semites
2 Feb – Scalia's Replacement, Textualism, and Money in Politics
27 Jan – history: Climate Change, Economics and Politics, 1050-1500
23 Jan – quotes
9 Jan – books: Progress, by Johan Norberg
6 Jan – Rural America supporting Trump
15 Dec – science: Running helps Brain Connectivity
2 Dec – Ayn Rand and Compromise
23 Nov – science: Intelligence and Neurology
15 Nov – A Complaint about the Liberal Media