CHANCE MEETINGS AND THE FORMING OF AN IDENTITY
Mark Twain celebrated his seventieth birthday at a fairly elaborate party, organized by the editor of Harper’s Weekly.
Read moreTHE MORE REFINED THE ERROR, THE MORE OBSCURED THE TRUTH
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing:
I do not know whether it be a duty to sacrifice happiness and life to truth.
CARS AND THE TROLLEY PROBLEM
I suppose that most people are familiar with the trolley problem, an imagined scenario challenging someone with the choice between doing nothing and watching 5 people die and acting to save those five people, knowing that doing that will kill one person.
Read moreWHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
READING LIST REVISITED
Retirement opened up for me a wide swath of time to do what I want to do, and one of the big things I want to do is read.
Read moreA PERSPECTIVE ON THE MOMENT
It’s all over the news this week that the Colorado judges who released their ruling that Trump should not be on the ballot for this election are receiving death threats.
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