Friday, March 26, 2021

A Note To A Friend On The Subject Of Forgiveness

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  I’ve done my share of forgiving and even more so have been forgiven but I haven’t thought much about forgiveness as such. To the extent th...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Some Friendly Back And Forth With A Friend About What Poetry Does And How We Approach It

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Me: To say a poem says something about something doesn’t make it a syllogism to be held to logical rigour. It’s poetry not philosophy. Poetr...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

My Response To John McWhorter’s Piece About The Firing Of Georgetown Law Prof Sellers

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John McWhorter:  https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/so-there-was-a-law-professor-at-georgetown Me: Dear Professor McWhorter: A few points ...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

A Response To A Friend About An Older Essay By Stanley Fish Denying There’s Such A Thing As Free Speech

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  Fish: https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Fish_FreeSpeech.pdf Me:  Fish’s argument is that there’s no such thing as free sp...
Saturday, March 6, 2021

Three Of Robert Nozick’s Arguments Against John Rawls’ A Theory Of Justice

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 Three arguments of Nozick against Rawls: 1. The experience machine thought experiment is where you can hook up to a machine for life th...

My Reply To A Teacher About Racism In Canada And The Idea Of Anti-Racism

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There are endless instances of unfair, insensitive and racist  treatment in Canada. No longer de jure though, which is vitally important. An...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

My Own Private Trump Overview

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As a former #nevertrumper, I decided when he got elected to take him one issue at a time. While trying to do that, the insane overreaction t...