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In the last days of February, prisons in the region demonstrated the nature of the crisis in which they are submerged. In Ecuador, on the 23rd, a series of riots ended in at least 79 deaths. A few days...
While running for office, Joseph Biden set out an ambitious platform of reforms he intended to make on immigration and refugee policy. Judging by the first six weeks of his Presidency, he is keeping his...
In All Passion Spent (1931), Vita Sackville-West’s eighty-eight-year-old protagonist thinks back over her life: “She had plenty of leisure now, day in, day out, to survey her life as a tract of...
My book Aristotle on Thought and Feeling concerns the relationship between thought and feelings (including desires), a topic that has exercised philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and, most...
In a world in which politics becomes increasingly conflictual, blame games are commonplace. They start with the (often accidental) discovery of a controversial event that shows that those in power and...
Amanda Gorman, delivering her poem at the 2021 presidential inauguration. Photo credits: Thomas Hatzenbuhler, Architect of the Capitol. Sourced from Library of Congress Blog
Few Byzantine emperors had a life as tumultuous as that of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425). Living and ruling during the last decades of the Byzantine Empire, Manuel witnessed civil wars between the...
What we are seeing Too much has been written about recent politics in the United States. As a result, there are wide and often contradictory views about how we should understand what has been going...
Despite repeated warnings from public health authorities that there is no magic bullet, the COVID-19 pandemic has inspired a wide range of dubious treatments ranging from bleach and hydroxychloroquine...
I am a retired neurologist with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. For nearly 25 years I practiced and taught general neurology. Many of my patients had dementia including Alzheimer’s disease,...
You have heard of the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Each is a natural human weakness that impedes happiness. In addition to these vices, however, there are deadly...
The original post can be found at www.principia.blog Everyone knows that The Principia was based on the inspiration that struck Newton when the apple struck his head, as you can...
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