Abortion and the Mythic Mother![]()
Personal Essay - “They do not realize good mothering comes from fearlessness. Few things promote more fear than being deprived of control of one’s own body.” 12/5/2022
Personal Essay - “They do not realize good mothering comes from fearlessness. Few things promote more fear than being deprived of control of one’s own body.” 12/5/2022
On the Inevitability of Racism![]()
The Center - “As psychoanalysis long ago has perspicaciously demonstrated, prejudice is universal to human nature and is evolutionarily informed.” 12/5/2022
The Center - “As psychoanalysis long ago has perspicaciously demonstrated, prejudice is universal to human nature and is evolutionarily informed.” 12/5/2022COVID-19 and the Banality of Evil![]()
The Left - “Compulsory obedience can especially be seen in how the Democratic Party has changed since the election of President Biden in 2020. Before he entered office, COVID-19 was more accepted as an important and legitimate issue.” 12/4/2022
The Left - “Compulsory obedience can especially be seen in how the Democratic Party has changed since the election of President Biden in 2020. Before he entered office, COVID-19 was more accepted as an important and legitimate issue.” 12/4/2022Five Poems of Neighborhood ![]()
Poetry - “‘What have you got there?’ ‘It’s snapper.’/“Did you catch it?’ ‘No, my dad caught it—/He says to watch out for any tiny bones.'” 12/2/2022
Poetry - “‘What have you got there?’ ‘It’s snapper.’/“Did you catch it?’ ‘No, my dad caught it—/He says to watch out for any tiny bones.'” 12/2/2022Russia Will Pursue Desperate Strategies After It Exhausts Its Missile Supply![]()
The Center - “Aside from the fact that history shows that rockets are far more useful at inflicting damage against military than civilian targets, their misuse may indicate an underlying strategic desperation in the Kremlin.” 12/1/2022
The Center - “Aside from the fact that history shows that rockets are far more useful at inflicting damage against military than civilian targets, their misuse may indicate an underlying strategic desperation in the Kremlin.” 12/1/2022The First Metaverse Nation![]()
The Center - “What is new, in this case, is that the people of Tuvalu are hoping their future metaverse-based civilization will continue to function as a state and will be recognized internationally as a proper nation.” 12/1/2022
The Center - “What is new, in this case, is that the people of Tuvalu are hoping their future metaverse-based civilization will continue to function as a state and will be recognized internationally as a proper nation.” 12/1/2022Review: Maurice Glasman’s “Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good”![]()
The Right - “For Labour forgot that life involves loss and tragedy. It forgot that ‘human beings are not commodities, but creative and social beings longing for connection and meaning.'” 11/30/2022
The Right - “For Labour forgot that life involves loss and tragedy. It forgot that ‘human beings are not commodities, but creative and social beings longing for connection and meaning.'” 11/30/2022William Jacobson: What Happened to Campus?![]()
The Right - “I’m not optimistic at all that campuses can be reformed. They certainly cannot be reformed from within…Academia is gone. It is a monoculture. It is a hermetically sealed bubble.” 11/14/2022
The Right - “I’m not optimistic at all that campuses can be reformed. They certainly cannot be reformed from within…Academia is gone. It is a monoculture. It is a hermetically sealed bubble.” 11/14/2022No, Let’s Not: Perpetrators of Pandemic Authoritarianism Cannot Be Forgiven![]()
The Center - “It must become embarrassing to admit one ever supported uninformed and nonconsensual participation in a medical experiment or mass house arrest and coerced isolation.” 11/7/2022
The Center - “It must become embarrassing to admit one ever supported uninformed and nonconsensual participation in a medical experiment or mass house arrest and coerced isolation.” 11/7/2022Fetterman v. Oz (And a Love Letter to a Conflicted Pennsylvania)![]()
Personal Essay - “Not everything stays the same, and, in many cases, it probably should not.” 11/1/2022
Personal Essay - “Not everything stays the same, and, in many cases, it probably should not.” 11/1/2022George Psalmanazar and the Extreme Art of Imposture![]()
Personal Essay - “Many of us also like impostors because, deep down, we understand that to exist only matter-of-factly, without fiction, would be intolerable.” 10/31/2022
Personal Essay - “Many of us also like impostors because, deep down, we understand that to exist only matter-of-factly, without fiction, would be intolerable.” 10/31/2022The Complexity Paradox![]()
The Center - “We are great at handling complexity until things get really, really complex.” 10/27/2022
The Center - “We are great at handling complexity until things get really, really complex.” 10/27/2022Review: “Homer: The Very Idea” by James I. Porter ![]()
Criticism - “But the price of that fame and quasi-divine status took its toll. ‘Immortality had its costs,’ Porter writes, ‘and Homer paid for it dearly.'” 10/24/2022
Criticism - “But the price of that fame and quasi-divine status took its toll. ‘Immortality had its costs,’ Porter writes, ‘and Homer paid for it dearly.'” 10/24/2022
Putin’s Nuclear Threats Show that Jacinda Adern is Wrong About Nuclear Weapons![]()
The Center - “[Prime Minister Ardern] is correct that nuclear weapons arsenals carry with them great risks of widespread destruction. However, the greatest risk lies in committing not to use them.” 10/14/2022
The Center - “[Prime Minister Ardern] is correct that nuclear weapons arsenals carry with them great risks of widespread destruction. However, the greatest risk lies in committing not to use them.” 10/14/2022
