It is said that novice pilots flying into cloud cover tend not to trust their instruments. A turn here, an adjustment there, ...

A relatively minor circle of French philosophes pioneered the ideas of the European Enlightenment. Demographic and economic forces provided those ideas a ...

One sign in a hall of mirrors and the whole thing repeats itself infinitely. At least that's how I imagine it, never having ...

The culture of blogging may provide for the first time ever, in the history of humanity, the mass desublimation of personalized hate. ...

America has done a poor job of selling the family - at least since the days of slavery. Somehow the family has come to ...

Three candidates walk into a bar. One starts an unprovoked fight with one of the others, insulting and attacking. The third just buys a drink ...

The world is interfused with human consciousness. As we see and hear, touch and taste, more often than not we are tasting ...

If time is a river, then the generations are like bends in that river, topography like ages. So if the great debates of ...

The problem with most patriotism is that it fails to go far enough. A true love for country would embrace the political ...

Sometimes I wonder if becoming satisfied with politics itself would do more to alleviate human suffering than the political ends we struggle ...