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The Twisty Language of Politics: What Does Being “Liberal” or “Conservative” or “Neoliberal” Mean?
/ August 20, 2018Like everyone else who thinks or talks or writes about current politics, words like “liberal,” “conservative,” “liberalism,” “neoliberal,” fly glibly…
Conflicting Moral Visions in a Secular World
/ June 26, 2018Moral Cross-Currents & Political Rip-Tides In the present era of globalization we live in not just a smaller but an…
Obsolete Ideas That Still Rule Our Lives
/ April 23, 2018It’s a paradox—being a human in today’s world. For one thing, as I wrote recently, some of our central social and…
The Human Equation Now
/ April 9, 2018Does the trend-line of recent human history advance or decline? “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to…
Catching Up To What We Know
/ March 14, 2018Preface Big Problems Almost everyone knows that humankind faces huge problems now, and will do so even more in coming…
A New Year; A New Level of Consciousness
/ January 17, 2018A New Year Well, the sun’s rising on the morning of a new year. 2018. As a number it has…
How Long Should Blog-Posts Be? Brevity & Readability v. Substance
/ January 2, 2018I struggle with how to write blog-posts that are the right length—that people will read. Experts tell me that blogs…
What Does Science Teach Us? Its Core Lesson is Humility
/ December 17, 2017Summary Through the centuries science teaches the lesson of humility, while its technological applications confer increasingly god-like power that seems…
A Couple of West-Coasters Visit Newfoundland
/ October 29, 2017On September 15, 2017, Faye and I left Vancouver Island for a long-awaited trip to the maritime provinces of eastern…