Book Review: The Universal University by Chris Highland
A lightly edited version of this review was published in PDF form in the March–April 2025 issue of the Freethought Society’s newsletter.
On Carl Jung and Dualities
Sig and I set out some time ago to complete a paired reading of Carl Jung’s autobiographical book Memories, Dreams, Reflections. It did not go as I’d thought and hoped it would.
Placebo Effects: More Than Medical
It’s “resolution reset” season already. At least that’s what an ad I received yesterday proclaimed. And it set me to thinking …
Book Review: Bound by Faith by Mark Alsip
A lightly edited version of my review was published in the Freethought Society’s January–February 2025 newsletter.
In Which I Play the Prediction Game
Not being a person tightly tied to the Gregorian calendar, I have little use for new year’s resolutions and predictions, etc. Yet here I am, in the uncomfortable position of offering a prediction that could perhaps reach a tipping point as early as 2030.
Is US Electoral Politics Irreparably Broken?
In which I try to think and write my way through a bunch of stuff [really, there’s no better noun] in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election.
Rereading a Classic Revealed Older English Syntax Hidden Behind Punctuation
It was a little embarrassing to discover recently—after multiple rereadings—that one of my favorite English novels contains clues about the language’s syntax in the late 18th–early 19th centuries.