Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsRevisiting Hitchens: god is Not GreatWatching again the 2007 recorded debates of Christopher Hitchens, arguing the case for anti-theism against the simplistic conceptions of…Aug 28Aug 28
Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsThe lens of insanityPhilosophy does not mean abstract or arcane hairsplitting. Nor does it mean forever rehashing the ancients to fearfully avoid drawing…Feb 7, 20231Feb 7, 20231
Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsConfessions of a journallerKeeping a journal is something I have done since I was a child. It is so much part of my daily routine now that I tend to forget that it is…Jan 8, 2023Jan 8, 2023
Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsLiberal Party incompetence as policyReading through the Liberal Party’s[1] review of its May 2022 election loss is a double-take exercise, perhaps explaining the poverty of…Dec 27, 20221Dec 27, 20221
Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsTerry Hall: passing of an eraA lot of famous people have died in the past few years. But I’ve never been overly maudlin about a celebrity death compared to one closer…Dec 22, 2022Dec 22, 2022
Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsBourgeoisie lives its own hellIn recent time I’ve been challenged more than once on using the term bourgeois. At first I dismissed such challenges as merely pettish, but…Dec 12, 20221Dec 12, 20221
Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsScorsese’s Irishman: sad farewell to an eraWhen I finally got around to watching The Irishman, I had still been isolated from conventional and amateur critique about the film.Jan 15, 2020Jan 15, 2020
Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsAnonymity: death of democracyThe following is an edited excerpt from a letter in which I was putting forward my position on why social media deserve to be censored; an…Jul 20, 2018Jul 20, 2018
Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsEllroy bleeds for HopkinsThere is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.Dec 30, 2017Dec 30, 2017
Peter StrempelinMinority ReportsMark Felt: extended metaphorPeter Landesman’s film Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) annoyed the hell out of me. So much that I felt compelled…Dec 28, 2017Dec 28, 2017