In March, the New Yorker ran a profile of a professor at Tufts, Daniel Dennett. Dennett’s shtick is writing about consciousness and the philosophy of mind. He seems to have been a stalwart soldier in the effort to drag religion and the ‘soul’ out…

Arrival of the Octopuses

One begins to appreciate the level of professionalism that Amy Adams brings to her work when one watches her take the alien Octopuses seriously, for the ENTIRE MOVIE. The urge to giggle must have been fantastic. Still, the pressure of keeping that grin off her face did take its toll. I’ve always…

It is easy to become diverted by the impending reversal of New Deal. It is pretty astonishing to imagine the economic principles from one hundred years ago having life breathed back into them. Paul Ryan is so excited about turning over Medicare to the insurance/finance industry that he…