What to do if morality and loyalty pull in opposite directions: A review of Nicholas Jose, The Idealist The 2023 blockbuster movie Oppenheimer broke box office records in Australia and garnered many Academy Awards. The biographical thriller features a conflicted hero, physicist Robert Oppenheimer. At the first atomic bomb explosion in the American desert, Oppenheimer Continue reading »
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The protests and protest candidates failed because they lacked organizational structures and concrete policies.
What a state concedes, a state can take back. This book is an argument for a new women’s movement.
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John von Neumann’s life ended the way many of those of his intellectual caliber end: in madness.
Protestant pagans are everywhere in the post-Christian West.
Listening for those voices from the deep.
The boarding students were far from home and the variable consolations of family life. They were shackled with priestly companions, pledged to lives of celibacy, who also had been removed from their families in their early teens and isolated from society in religious institutions from which they were then turned out, with scant proper preparation, Continue reading »
The philosophical divide doesn’t neatly correspond with our political divide. There are egoists on all sides, just as there are altruists.
During the crush at the evacuation of Kabul airport in 2021, a little girl became separated from her mother and was inconsolable and could not be moved. Fred left her for a moment, during which CS gas caused a stampede of marines. When he looked for the girl, she had disappeared. Fred Smith has already Continue reading »