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Grim Tidings

The cosmic secrets of godlessness all wrapped up by a fellow with a Ph.D. writing on the internet

Even Scientists are Trapped by their Intuitions

Even Scientists are Trapped by their Intuitions

To social mammals like us, mindless physicality may be inexplicable

Dec 4

Should We Psychoanalyze the Mystics of the Axial Age?

Should We Psychoanalyze the Mystics of the Axial Age?

Assessing Bard’s and Söderqvist’s Lacanian screed in “Process and Event”

Nov 30

The Laws of War are Feats of Orwellian Gaslighting

The Laws of War are Feats of Orwellian Gaslighting

The clash between the international acceptance of war, and the domestic outlawing of murder

Nov 29

God or Monstrous Nature? The Mother of All Dichotomies

God or Monstrous Nature? The Mother of All Dichotomies

And the relative triviality of most preoccupations

Nov 27

The Irony of Jewish Fundamentalism in Modern Israel

The Irony of Jewish Fundamentalism in Modern Israel

And the liberal’s burden of distinguishing Israel from its Islamist neighbours

Nov 24

Legal Fictions and Israel’s Status at the United Nations

Legal Fictions and Israel’s Status at the United Nations

War’s strange legality, and the UN’s call for a truce in Israel’s war with Hamas

Nov 22

The Clash between Medievalism and Modernity in the Middle East

The Clash between Medievalism and Modernity in the Middle East

Why Israel will never be at peace until the Muslim world is modernized

Nov 9

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The Abyss That’s Engulfing Western Philosophy

The Abyss That’s Engulfing Western Philosophy

And a call for honour in the clash between scientific and literary philosophical traditions

Nov 6

Is Israel Blaming All Palestinians for Hamas’s Terrorism?

Is Israel Blaming All Palestinians for Hamas’s Terrorism?

The brutality of war in the tribal Middle East

Nov 3

Reckoning with the Muslim World’s Loathing of Israeli Jews

Reckoning with the Muslim World’s Loathing of Israeli Jews

The key imbalances that explain the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Oct 26

You’re either Free and Alienated or Enslaved to Physics or Society

You’re either Free and Alienated or Enslaved to Physics or Society

All living things are withdrawn from nature, but some people know why that freedom is a blessing and a curse

Oct 25

Can We Submit to Nature’s Carbon’s Cycle?

Can We Submit to Nature’s Carbon’s Cycle?

How progress begins with revulsion for the inhumanity of wild places

Oct 23

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