Paulosophical Vimplications

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• MY BOOK REPORT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I take it we’ve all heard of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. That it was an anti-Semitic forgery and yada yada yada. But how many of us had actually read it? I certainly hadn’t. Until last night…. Read More ›

• DECOLONIZING THE CLASSROOM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 22, 2020 • ( 12 )

  Earlier this morning, Thursday, November 19, 2020, the faculty here at the University of Lethbridge received a rather puzzling missive. We’re being told that the University would like us to cooperate in “the decolonization of the classroom.”  Not having the… Read More ›

• WHAT DO THE HOLOCAUST, GLOBAL WARMING, AND THE FILIOQUE HAVE IN COMMON?

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 20, 2020 • ( 6 )

  Abstract: In this paper we offer a conjecture as to how it’s possible that people of identical epistemic integrity – by which we mean pretty close to none – can and do nonetheless arrive at polar opposite views about history,… Read More ›

• A CARTESIAN MEDITATION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  For twelve summers, until this one, I’ve spent the lion’s share of April to September in a village overlooking the Amalfi Coast. If the borders reopen by next April, I’ll be able to carry on as before. But if not… Read More ›

• PLAYING OUR V-CARDS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 16, 2020 • ( 1 )

  With so many people playing their victim cards, it’s almost impossible to know whether everyone’s a victim, none are, or only some are. The current claimants include Blacks, Latinos, Arabs, Muslims in general, indigenous, Jews, women, LGBT+, trans-people … Those… Read More ›

• THE TRUTH ABOUT JESHUA OF NAZARETH

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  People think that Moses and Jesus and Mohammed must have been incredibly charismatic. I don’t know about Moses or Mohammed. Never met them. But I can tell you that Jeshua of Nazareth was anything but. He was dour, in just… Read More ›

• MY SIGNATURE PARLOUR SCHTICK

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 15, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Seven years later, when I was twenty, there was an Italian film with a title translated into English as Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. Seven years earlier, being only thirteen, that’s exactly what I was. And it was one… Read More ›

• THE FIFTH PLANE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 15, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The plan was to take the flight out of Boston to Chicago, breach the cockpit when it reached cruising altitude, divert it south to Washington, and hit either the White House or the Capitol. And if both were still standing… Read More ›

• AN OLD SOLDIER REMEMBERS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 15, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I was born in 1732, became a soldier at sixteen, fought in my country’s wars, lost an eye in one and an arm in another. So I was already an old man – too old for the battlefield – when… Read More ›

• THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 14, 2020 • ( 2 )

  When my kid was in grade seven, he was taught about the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He was not taught that the conquest of England was just another unconscionable act of Norman colonialism. There was no valourizing the victor… Read More ›

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