The Egoists and the Altruists
The philosophical divide doesn’t neatly correspond with our political divide. There are egoists on all sides, just as there are altruists.
In Through the Out Door
An abandoned—or abandoning—god might also reappear.
The Elon Effect
Are we both perpetrators and victims of the Elon Effect?
Man Thinks, God Laughs
Kundera’s novels are expansive and support irreconcilable yet arguably valid points of view.
Who’s Afraid of Barbara Wawa?
Posted on July 11, 2023
Image: Left: George W. Romney and Barbara Walters with President Richard Nixon,1969, public domain, White House Photo Office Collection. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Richard_Nixon,_George_W._Romney,_and_Barbara_Walters.jpg; Right: Barbara Walters interviewing Gerald and Betty Ford, 1976; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Image B2386-12A; public domain, work of US Federal Government. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara_Walters-The_Fords.jpg; Center: Barbara Walters’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Shutterstock.
That I have no idea who Barbara Walters is doesn’t matter nearly as much as the fact that this is the Times.
Fourth of July Democracy
We don’t wait. We start our own constitutional convention.