Deconstructing the Afterlife
As I get older, watching family, friends and strangers pass into the unknown, I think more about death and my own passage into it. The more I contemplate this eventuality, the less satisfied I...
Tagged: Language
A Modest Request
Can we please, please cease and desist using the word post-modern to describe falsehood-devoted political campaigning? Broadly speaking, post-modern delineates an outlook that see truth as situated, not as immaterial. ‘Tis not the postmodernist...
The Trouble with Self-Evident Human Rights: An Example
The Declaration of Independence begins with a bit of bad philosophy: to wit, positing, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
Echoes on the Road
“What seems to me to be constitutive of the religious is, therefore, the fact of crediting a word, in accordance with a certain code and within the limits of a certain canon. I would...
Echoes on the Road
“It was a merry journey with Tom Bombadil trotting gaily beside them, or before them, on Fatty Lumpkin, who could move much faster than his girth promised. Tom sang most of the time, but...
