…been recommending to many people — whether they have rough or soft hands. The hook: Crawford got a PhD in political philosophy (U Chicago). After getting a job at a…

…the libs is the guiding philosophy of Republican politicians and their minions, such actions have to be fought at all costs. The problem is that pandemic denial is a feature…

…my Regional Economics course in a discussion about path dependence and long-in-place roads I got into the two libraries of Alexandria, both of them burned, the first by Julius Caesar….

…artists. In another sense, they were psychologists before there was such. Before 1860, psychology was a branch of philosophy. A German, Wilhelm Wundt, was one of the first to proclaim…

…becomes a human being. No science or philosophy, please. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is being heard by nine Supreme Court Justices, six of whom are avowed…

…Took an oath to do so, “Do not bring your canons into our Court!” The law of the land, our land, should be based on philosophy and science; on our…

…the early twentieth century, there were state laws against mixed-race marriages, against contraception, against integrated schools and housing, against abortion. World War II changed the equation. Lawmakers had both to…

…can make this argument in a moral philosophy seminar, but it will not convince many people at the Supreme Court or in the court of public opinion.  Ollstein and Messerly…

…leader of a small central European country of fewer than 10 million people, about the size of Michigan. Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley commented: “Oh come on US conservatives, stop…

…better spent developing alternative energy. The deranged Russian megalomaniac was weaponizing economics, taking advantage of globalization. The deranged Chinese megalomaniac to his east also understands using economics as a weapon;…