Thrice Removed

Montaigne’s essay “Of Cruelty” speaks more to virtue than evil. He’s sorting out what it means to be virtuous. In a nutshell he says, “What I have in me of good, I have by chance.” Being virtuous has to be more than just the good we…

I offered seeing Food Inc. as a bonus project for my students and only had 2/30 takers. The title sounds boring. And to tell you the truth, the pacing is a bit slow and tedious. I started checking my watch after about an…

I had a brief Facebook conversation with Massimo Pigliucci about my decision to fritter away a morning watching the rain and petting my cat. He said, “It’s up to you to determine whether your…

I added the subtitle above because this is one trippy film, but it’s important to see (or read this summary). It actually helps explain Trump. After Adam Curtis’s The Century of the Self, a very straight-forward…