Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a great reminder to look at his anti-war legacy. This is a nice essay from the Quincy Institute, a new outfit in Washington DC trying to highlight a progressive anti-interventionist and anti-imperialist foreign policy that is more in keeping with MLK’s legacy. While Biden…

This was a great year for me. But not without its challenges. I taught my first semester at a law school (climate change law and policy at UH Richardson School of Law in Honolulu). …

Plummeting case counts are entirely predictable given the end of mandatory mass testing of the Chinese population, and the end of reporting asymptomatic “cases,” because widespread and repeated mass testing of people without symptoms results in huge numbers of false positives (99% or more false positives); so eliminating mass testing…

After I and others reached out to a New York Times reporter about a massively over-stated death rate for Covid, the error was corrected A sensationalistic New York Times article on December 15, 2022, by Apoorva Mandavilli proclaimed the scary news that some studies have found that even corpses can…

Clear violations of the First Amendment’s right to free speech are being demonstrated over and over again; when does the mainstream media start covering this? Matt Taibbi has been doing very important work on the “Twitter files” that show how our federal government has been the “central player” in urging…

In short: the theory described in his Fabric of Reality constitutes an impressive effort but suffers from huge leaps of logic and if you don’t accept the many worlds (multiverse) interpretation of quantum mechanics you won’t accept his broader theory The multi-verse concept has become rather popular recently in pop…

Illusionism, the strange school of thought in consciousness studies, argues that the experience of consciousness itself is an illusion. I argue very much to the contrary: the only thing we truly know is real is our personal experience. Rainbows are a common and extraordinarily beautiful phenomenon where I live in…

A conversation with my favorite contemporary social philosopher, Charles Eisenstein, about his life, his work, and the major opportunities and obstacles we’re facing today From a young age, Charles Eisenstein has felt something was fundamentally wrong with our world or, more specifically, with the social and political realities we have…

New data and long-term trends are starting to paint a much better picture for avoiding serious climate change Is there a good case for climate optimism? I feel that there is. …