Towards A Good Samaritan World

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I read this interesting tidbit about job-hunting the other day: Bad Rule No. 7: Clean up your online identity Stop stressing about the stup...

My argument about mind-brain supervenience set off a huge discussion in the comments. It's times like this that I feel like I really l...

I wonder how much I would make if I applied for this job . I'm qualified... Hmm. The downside of the land of opportunity: so many roa...

In Public View, Saudis Counter Iran in Region : With the prospect of three civil wars looming over the Middle East — and Iran poised to gain...

McCain Blasts Iraq Resolution (Newsday). Meanwhile, Iraqis are blaming the US for not getting the surge started fast enough: A growing num...

In response to an extended discussion on philosophy of mind in the comments a previous post... Commenter froclown presents a good analogy f...

Francis Fukuyama is right that Americans are unduly pessimistic. But he underestimates bin Laden: [T]here is good reason to think that we ...

David Warren of the Ottawa Citizen is a bracing columnist. An excerpt from Tribalism & Us : Here is the paradox: that we cannot afford ...

The world has fewer officially atheist states now than it did twenty years ago, when the Soviet Union and the communist powers of the Warsaw...

A brave commenter, "froclown," challenges me on physicalism and the brain: If the information in your inner world is so private a...

A great post on evolution at Brothers Judd: THEY WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE 13% WITHOUT THE COERCION THE MONOPOLY PROVIDES . Brothers Judd ofte...

Nato writes in a comment thread : In Obama I see a man who seems to leave his attempts to balance between epistemic humility and the need fo...

From Iraqi blogger Hammorabi : Through out the history we read about revolutions at their induction, climax and decline. Almost all of these...

Ralph Peters on the complexities of handling the Sunni-Shia divide : And now, in the worst American tradition, we're in danger of grabbi...

A Guardian writer is worried about "power vacuum" in the US: And there, from afar, is the unique problem with an American presid...

The commend thread inspired more thoughts about epistemology... Tradition. If one takes the foundationalist view of epistemology-- that c...

Another dismissive, contemptuous review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion . (Hat tip: Brothers Judd .) Until recently, western athe...

Mickey Kaus argues that "comprehensive immigration reform" and the Iraq War are both "bold, decisive disasters": Bold, ...

My latest article at Tech Central Station : Last night, President Bush's State of the Union address and Senator James Webb's Democr...

UnAmerican : Imagine you've just given a year and a half of your life to serving your country in Iraq and come home to find that your pr...

Writes historian John Judis : What exactly are we doing in the Horn of Africa, where we have encouraged the Christian government of Ethiopia...

From Iraqi blogger Hammorabi : Tuesday the 16th January 2007 was another bloody day in Iraq. This time the bloodshed was of female students ...

Barak Obama, now Democratic candidate for president , has no executive experience and only two years of experience in national politics. Ge...