Sorry I've been out of touch (as if you cared).  We have had a busy time here in our Compound, with flooding and various other things.  I'm sure you'll wince when I tell you, I should be posting more...

I know you missed them.

This is interesting:

“By the 1920s most biologists, social scientists, and allied philosophers had concluded that the moral freedom of the individual figured centrally in...

This is a nice piece capturing an interesting observation by Dan Drezner (whom as you may have noticed from my blog is someone I find often stimulating) about the explosion in the past 10 or so years...

Semester's begun, and so life is getting complicated.  But I'm hoping to still deposit something on this blog most days.  Today, two things!  Here are some links.

This is really a good question...

This is good:

Being nice, in “Ted Lasso,” is not a naïve denial of the darkness of life. It’s a cleareyed adaptation to it. The series recognizes that nice guys do sometimes finish last. It just...

This, an older (2018) essay by Lauren Oyler, is really interesting. I think, at its heart, this is a critique of, or a resistance to, the idea that our lives should always and everywhere intentionally...

So cool, both in method of study and in conclusions drawn.  “This new evidence adds to a growing realization that the Bronze Age was surprisingly global, with long-distance trade connections...

Some colleagues and I have received a grant to study gratitude across several traditions.  We'll be looking at theological work on this, philosophical work on this, and literary work on this!  It's...

From today (Sat Feb 6 2021)'s POLITICO "Playbook" morning newsletter:

As regards the idea that QAnon supporters are uneducated, we have this:

Our partners at Morning Consult have done some...

Catch the allusion?

This I think is a good sign about governments standing up to tech companies.  The degree of tech pushback suggests how scared they are.

Phil Klay, great fiction writer, and...