• The power of powerlessness
  Dec 4

• The worth of life is at stake
  Nov 16

• Creating a self and world through reading
  Nov 13

• Hope in times of despair
  Oct 25

• The burden of advertising
  Oct 22

• The wonder of a child
  Oct 14

• Vanity, vanity everywhere
  Oct 7

• Active reading
  Oct 4

• One's universe is built on trust
  Sep 12

• Reading alters the reader
  Sep 7

• Wrapping up a life of reading
  Aug 27

• Balancing physical work with intellectual work
  Aug 19

• Taking note (as in note-taking) can change oneself and the world
  Aug 14

• Human fragility
  Aug 14

• Ephemerality
  Aug 13

• Tribal nationalism
  Aug 7

• Writing abstracts the embodied concrete
  Aug 2

• Understanding, frameworks, and interpretation
  Jul 25

• How many words does it take?
  Jul 8

• Adventures in the used bookstore
  Jul 7

• Forgiveness and creativity
  Jun 29

• Stability in an unstable and destabalizing world
  Jun 24

• Life is embodied network
  Jun 21

• Sophisms past and present
  Jun 20

• The power of hope
  May 15

• Missing the story for the details
  Apr 5

• Live and let live
  Mar 28

• On studying Kant
  Mar 17

• The more refined the error, the more obscured the truth
  Feb 17

• Why we do what we do
  Jan 20

• Depressing utopias
  Dec 23

• The danger of political parties
  Dec 20

• The cost of speaking the truth
  Dec 19

• Bookstores, value and scarcity
  Dec 18

• To die is to pass into fiction
  Dec 7

• Emerging mysteries with aging
  Nov 30

• Parts of a whole
  Nov 12

• Stop with the procrastinating, already!
  Nov 5

• Witticism as Criticism
  Nov 3

• The risks of freedom
  Oct 31

• On (not) reading Kant
  Oct 25

• A 'Good Society' supports dutiful action
  Oct 10

• Stories make a life
  Sep 30

• Happiness as by-product rather than end
  Sep 3

• Freedom to chew over odd ideas
  Aug 26

• The worst of times, the best of times
  Aug 20

• Why study philosophy?
  Aug 15

• Wondering about wondering
  Aug 11

• Arendt, Kant, and Judgment
  Aug 7

• Social insecurities and FOMO, 1954 version
  Aug 7

• The bonds of reading
  Aug 6

• Grief and regret
  Aug 6

• The practice of writing
  Aug 1

• The Past in the Present
  Jul 24

• The companionship in reading
  Jul 16

• The benefits of luck
  Jul 10

• Crises, past and present
  Jul 9

• Independent cells or cells in community?
  Jun 24

• Are we consumers of our lives or products of them?
  Jun 22

• Ego, emptiness, and rebirth
  Jun 16

• On the validity of the biblical text
  Jun 14

• Whitehead on reading Kant
  Jun 12

• Human "progress" and nature
  Jun 12

• It looks as if…
  Jun 7

• On managing aristocrats
  May 25

• The price of books
  Apr 29

• Genes: fate and choice
  Apr 14

• Living an entirely private life is a deprivation
  Mar 2

• Of a certain age …
  Feb 27

• Reason, properly understood, is public and sharable
  Feb 26

• Self interrupting the self
  Feb 21

• Writer's block
  Feb 5

• Bertrand Russell on dictators
  Feb 2

• Nazis and socialists (and the KKK)
  Feb 1

• My experience is what I attend to
  Jan 31

• The burden of writing
  Jan 30

• Cognition and locomotion
  Jan 29

• Totalitarianism, Perfection, and Oppression
  Jan 28

• Reading (and translating) one’s past writings
  Jan 26

• Reading is its own reward
  Jan 25

• Courage to write
  Jan 25

• Academic departmentalization and teaching mentality
  Jan 19

• Lived life and stories
  Jan 16

• The luxury of yearning for less
  Jan 4