An underwhelming encounter with Christians
A misadventure. [Written in 2006.]— At lunch in the campus center I saw a flyer advertising an event tonight having something to do with...
An underwhelming encounter with Christians
Notes on Theodor Adorno
"Sunbelt capitalism"
"The West's" derivativeness
Random notes on Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, economics, and traditional China
Various notes and excerpts
Far-left, i.e., rational and open-minded
Historians and existentialism
Old notes on the Enlightenment
Bertrand Russell, and David Hume, on philosophy
More thoughts on the French Revolution
On the French Revolution
Catholicism, an anachronism
Intellectual origins of American radicalism
The U.S. in Central America
Glib thoughts on the fall of capitalism
On the use and abuse of “perspective” for life
Dropping the atomic bomb
Fragments on bourgeois ideologists
The paradox of free will