Ideas, concepts, and intuitions underlie all cognitive experience and sometime I write about them.
The Turret Two Tour of the USS New Jersey was a moment to reflect on the astounding machinery of war.
A spirited response enjoining MORE pessimism to Fred Hyatt's Washington Post editorial on technology and democracy
Calling presentism a prejudice is a little like calling 45 a bad president: It's not strong enough.
On the phrase "hocus pocus," from Marina Warner's essay “Spellbound” on the book Drawing Down The Moon
An explanation of the cryptic subtitle of my site, namely, that I am an erstwhile flâneur.
Early in the 2020 COVID pandemic, we "hunkered down" with our phones and devices, pathologically seeking information to momentarily pacify…
An elliptical reflection on the ruptures in time and history.
Some ideas are "sexy," ahem, because they baffle the imagination and excite the intellect (or vice versa). Rousseau's noble savage…
What are the consequences of the Overton Window in paleontology that dinosaurs precede the bird?
On a thought provoking essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg on recent literature in paleontology.