Psych Gripes: Introduction and Overview
As a social science, psychology has been failing the general public for years. I don’t have enough hubris to put a precise figure on that, but I’ve plenty to invest in exploring elsewhere on the subject.
Thought for the Day
“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” — Thomas Paine, in the 1795–1796 pamphlet Agrarian Justice.
Reinventing Myself?
How does a person make sense of an itinerant “career” for a potential employer when it doesn’t really make sense to oneself?
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.