Diversity is our strength. Well yeah, if we’re talking about an evolutionary strategy for the perdurance of a species. And yeah, to some extent if we’re talking about the perdurance of a polity. We need some people who are good… Read More ›
Everything You Wanted to Know About What’s Going On in the World But Were Afraid to Ask
WHITE SUPREMACY REINTERPRETED
Hate speech and hate crime have nothing to do with hate. So since words no longer have to mean what they intuitively do, let’s take a look at white supremacy. Does a white supremacist have to believe that whites are… Read More ›
PLUS C’EST LA MEME CHOSE
First came the bomb. Then came the power plant. So if ever there was a case of beating swords into plowshares … But usually it’s the other way around. Is that what the Chicken Little-ers are worried about? That AI… Read More ›
REPLY TO BOGHOSSIAN
See, Why I’m a Progressive, Peter Boghossian, Substack, Sep 17, 2026. Millions of people in Africa and South Asia want a better life – in some cases even just a slightly safer one – and so they do what they… Read More ›
OF MIGRANTS AND CELL PHONES
In the so-called First World we went from letter writing to land lines and thence to cell phones. In the so-called Third World they skipped the land lines. So on the news we see desperate young men from North Africa… Read More ›
TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE
If it were true that “There are only two kinds of people in the world,” then everyone of the one kind would be qualitatively identical to everyone else of the same kind. Well, apart from identical newborn twins and everyone… Read More ›
THE MIGRANT CRISIS – PART TWO
Humour is about exaggeration. But it’s not exaggeration unless there’s at least a modicum of truth. So yeah, I’m trying to be funny. But take me at least a little bit seriously. Actions have consequences. So does abstinence. It’s not… Read More ›
THE MIGRANT CRISIS
Walls are things. Borders are ideas. Hadrian’s Wall used to be both. Now it’s neither. Some borders have walls. Most don’t. They don’t because they don’t need to. They don’t need to because most people think borders are things. More… Read More ›
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: PART TWO
What do humans have that an AI replacement doesn’t? Well, a body for one thing. Okay, so let’s give it one. What does a human have that an AI-driven robot doesn’t? A certain kind of body, namely a human one…. Read More ›
ACCENTISM
Okay, this is going to sound pretty curmudgeony, but dammit, someone’s gotta say it, so it might as well be me. I try to understand them. Honest I do. But more often than not I can’t. And when I can’t… Read More ›
