psychology

A Great Blue Heron flies up to a branch from the stream about 30 meters downstream. It’s only visible through the thick foliage for a few seconds, but the sight…

A philosopher is a person who has a low threshold for contradictions and unexamined premises. Speaking of the latter, here’s an example of a ‘given’ that isn’t a given at…

An old friend from philosophy grad school and I are asking a pressing, non-philosophical question: What the hell is going on? It isn’t just American politics that’s completely gone off…

Einstein famously said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” A corollary of this truth is that we cannot look to the same…

A friend and I, with others in town, are inquiring into the future of humankind. I take the view that “no teacher, however illumined, has changed the basic course of…

Until recently I thought that activists working to bring about a sustainable, peaceful and just world were doing their bit. It was just a matter of finding a way to…

I said in a recent column that if Bernie Sanders had spoken of the urgent necessity of psychological revolution rather than incessantly calling for a political revolution, he would be…

Perhaps in part because I haven’t had children, I recoil when I hear a parent say something like, “kids questions reflect that time between innocence and experience.”