“We should forget the Manchurian Candidate angle. Isn’t what Trump did bad enough that it almost doesn’t matter why he does it? We continue, vainly, to seek the proverbial smoking gun. The imponderable whys have crowded out the deplorable whats.”
Read more at The Smart Set
An excerpted chapter from my memoir manuscript titled “Halfway Twice is Not Yet Once.” Opening paragraph: “When we were 13-years old, my best friend Matt introduced me to punk rock. The year was 1987 and until then my limited music collection consisted of vinyl records of Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys, bootleg cassette copies of Doug E. Fresh and the Fresh Prince, plus cassette tapes I’d purchased of Kool Moe Dee’s “How Ya Like Me Now” and “Crushin'” by the Fat Boys.”
at SLAB literary journal
“Naturalism, the idea that everything can be explained without reference to the supernatural, for Nietzsche is both the cause of nihilism and the only path to take as we struggle on after the death of God. It is therefore from a naturalistic perspective that we will best understand some of Nietzsche’s otherwise strange exhortations about how to go on living—his advocacy for a certain diet and climate, for instance. What is basic for humanity is not theology and philosophy, but physiology and psychology. For example, Nietzsche says he is interested in one question “on which the ‘salvation of humanity’ depends far more than on any theologians’ curio: the question of nutrition” (Ecce Homo, ‘Why I am So Clever’).“
Read more at Philosophy Now
“On January 6th, we witnessed the extraordinary danger credulity poses to democracy. One wonders whether or not we possess the critical thinking skills required by our era’s information ecosystem.”
Read more at As It Ought To Be magazine
I authored the first chapter of this book. My essay was titled “How Not To Watch Girls” after Adorno’s “How Not To Watch TV,” in which Adorno says, “Mass culture is the seed bed of political totalitarianism.” I wrote: “Girls is a rarity that avoids the very serious and consequential pitfalls Adorno finds in most products of the culture industry.”
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My book review of my favorite author, Maggie Nelson’s book, On Freedom, published in Ruminate (no longer publishing).
Read in my archive
My book review of Joshua Alexander’s book Experimental Philosophy: An Introduction.
Read in Philosophia
My book review of Mustapha Chérif’s Islam and the West: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida.
Read in Philosophical Papers
“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.” —Nietzsche