In Defense of Gravitas
Was Wittgenstein a Realist or an Antirealist?
Mr. Clinton’s Lament
A Slow Reader’s Books of the Year
Prisoners of the Prisoner’s Dilemma
The Scholar, the Prophet, the Monk, and the Healer
Orbán’s Politics of Fear and Hatred in Hungary
On a European nation’s far-right response to the refugee crisis
Although the position on the migrant issue put forward by the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, is morally hard to digest, many people think it is nevertheless the only way to save Europe from the flood of masses that threatens to destabilize the continent. I dispute this ...
Zuckerberg & Chan Are Us
Philanthrocapitalism and the public good
Almost forty-eight years to the day before Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced the creation of their limited liability company and pledged to give away 99% of their Facebook shares within their lifetimes, a lawyer lectured a roomful of stockbrokers on “How to Obtain Maximum Tax Advantages by Using Securities ...
...Challenging the Status Quo on Therapy’s Place in Schizophrenia Treatment
A discussion of recent developments
Historic wisdom has held that high doses of antipsychotic medications are the most effective treatment for schizophrenia -- but that wisdom has been challenged by a new study reported in an article in ...
...ISIS Slaughters, Iranians Get Punished
A threat to democratic efforts in Iran
Last Tuesday, December 8, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill, supported by the White House, which, if signed into law this week, would punish Iranians for crimes they have never committed. Moreover, it would provoke the hardliners in Iran, only a few months after ...
Shakespeare and Trump: What’s in a Name?
Thoughts on headless bodies in tombless graves
One seeks in vain for references to Shakespeare in Carly Fiorina’s Tough Choices: A Memoir (2007) and Rising to the Challenge: My Leadership Journey (2015). There are no lessons from Shakespeare in Hillary Clinton’s It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach ...