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Phrenology, which was big in the early 1800’s, is defined as “the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental…

Admittedly, I’ve inveighed against a number of superficial, second-rate and wrongheaded philosophical pieces in the New York Times [Philosopher’s] “Stone” series. So it’s only fair and fitting that when I…

The fundamental question of our time is: Does a prototype exist somewhere in this world that can provide an adequate response to the human crisis? To my mind, the answer…

Mainstream media hacks are spewing ever-increasing twaddle. It’s not enough that the MSM was instrumental in producing President Frankenstein by hewing to the potholed roads of the status quo, and…

Once again the New York Times has outdone itself in philosophical foolishness with its weekly op-ed, “The [Philosopher’s] Stone.” Op-eds are often narrow and shallow, but this piece, “Would Human…

I’ve been hearing a similar refrain from a variety of people in the West. I feel it’s wishful thinking, but so many people believe it that one can’t help doubting…

Fifty years ago Will Durant, wrote, “We humans are the same trousered apes at 2000 miles an hour as when we had legs.” Given the consensus at present that the…

Over the last 30 years, philosophers of science, pundits and New Age devotees have blurred and muddied the differences between humans and nature. The gambit has been to eliminate the…