The Esoteric Nature Of Truth
In this era of ‘Alternative Facts’, more than ever, the truth really matters, not only as…
Trumped at their own game
It’s easy to understand why liberals or libertarians may be alarmed by Donald Trump, but why do…
Cities, like dreams, are made of…
Civilisation” is a word that evokes cultural sophistication. It suggests knowledge, enlightenment, arts, sciences, and commerce….
Loveless Sociopath—Or Bust
Humans have a penchant for anthropomorphising things. We encounter something that resembles one basic feature of…
My Country, ’Tis Not for Thee
Hopefully they reveal the ethnicities of the people involved in this shooting soon so we know…
Say What?
When we speak of threats to free speech, the most common current concern tends to be…
Ismat and Ayaan
How does a secular intellectual feminist perspective emerge when one is raised in a highly patriarchal…
Found in Translation
In the spring of 2006, I was taking the Amtrak train from Washington DC to New…
The New Normal
There is an ancient technology called “text”: a visual representation of an idea or object, often…
Fault(y) Lines
Many political words have wildly divergent and sometimes contradictory meanings—socialist, libertarian, communitarian, conservative, liberal, centrist, leftist,…