I’ve thought long and hard about this problem, but apparently not hard enough, because I haven’t come up with a solution to it, and I’m beginning to despair that I ever will. As I’ve noted elsewhere, your freedom of expression… Read More ›
Month: October 2023
JUST DO THE MATH
At any given time, there are about 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza, which means at least 50,000 live births per year, which means about an extra, say, 24,000 young men reaching fighting age per year. So even if only a… Read More ›
THE JUNKED AND THE UNJUNKED
Some time ago the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia published an article by Rebecca Tuvel in which she argued that, given the argumentation involved, if one can be transgendered, likewise can one be transracial, and if one can’t be transracial then… Read More ›
A PUZZLE ABOUT THE MEDIA
Last Saturday, October 7th, 600 people – and still counting – died in a Hamas breakout from Gaza. And on the same morning, 2000 people – and still counting – died in an earthquake in Afghanistan. The breakout dominated the… Read More ›
DON’T ASK DON’T TELL
Right from the get-go last Saturday morning, it’s been dubbed Israel’s 9/11. Yes there are parallels. But among them is the assiduous avoidance, in the largely pro-Zionist media, of asking what have the Israelis been doing to the Palestinians in… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 