Crush #17 By now, you’ve all heard of “post-truth.” I’ve written about that here already. The term is very 2017 and early-mid 2018, i.e., it’s yesterday’s news. I’m going to give you something new: post-common […]

Crush #17 By now, you’ve all heard of “post-truth.” I’ve written about that here already. The term is very 2017 and early-mid 2018, i.e., it’s yesterday’s news. I’m going to give you something new: post-common […]
Crush #16 Philosophy, like art, always reflects what’s happening in a culture at a given time. One way to define philosophy is as a sustained meditation on the present historical moment and the questions that […]
Crush #14 There are times when we’re called on to make a decision. I’m not talking about everyday decisions but the momentous ones, those choices that reveal who you are. We all face these moments […]
Crush #13 You won’t find a more polarizing writer than Ayn Rand. Typically, people who read her books either revere or despise her, and there’s little in between. There are reasons for this. She was […]
Crush #14 When Facebook came into existence my first thought was, this will be very popular among unusually narcissistic adolescents, maybe teenagers too. I was surprised to learn that people in their twenties were using […]
Crush #12 Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins had this to say about the Canadian rock trio, Rush: “I believe when people step back and actually really look at who the great bands were, they […]
Crush #11 Can you get children interested in philosophy? And if you could, would you want to? Some philosophers have written about this, which might surprise you. We’re not surprised when teachers or parents try […]
Crush #10 There are limits to what a person can teach someone. Everything that’s known can be learned, but it doesn’t follow that it can also be taught. By creative thinking I have in mind […]
Crush #9 Does anyone read books anymore? When I was in high school, I fell in love with books—books about philosophy, psychology, novels, basically whatever the small bookstore in my hometown carried, or a lot […]
Crush #8 Teachers of nearly every kind are likely to agree that the great nemesis of education is what goes by the name of indoctrination. The agreement tends to end there, however. What is indoctrination, […]