Neil Postman’s book Technopoly remains as relevant today as it was when he published it in 1992. I’ve been contemplating and reading for a while now about the impact of the public’s reception of technoogy on their perception of…

The following is an excerpt from Islam Between East and West by ‘Alija ‘Ali Izetbegović (1925–2003), which was first published in 1984. I shared a previous excerpt here titled The Meaning of Humanism. The best remark that can be made about this book is one that I came across in a review posted…

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

In a review article published in 2017 in Current Directions in Psychological Science, the…

Homeopathy in the Modern World

In a recent paper, George Vithoulkas argues that “homeopathy is not a therapeutic approach suited for a…

The following is an excerpt from an essay published in 2005 titled “On Bullshit” by Harry G. Frankfurt, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where towards the end he sums the answer to this question up. It’s a really a good treatment of what the…

ADHD: Making the Normal Pathological

I recently shared a post on my Facebook Page and other social media platforms where I wrote: