LISTENING FOR THE UNCONSCIOUS Fall 2009 According to a book on the laws of the holiday Yom Kippur, the Talmud states, “Yom Kippur atones for those who repent and does not atone for those who do not repent”. To aid… Read More ›
Month: September 2012
The Social Life of Homo Sapiens (Part I?)
FROM SEQUENCE 4 November 2002 (N.B.: A story from a golden age, before cellphones became more ubiquitous than eyeglasses, and phone booths an endangered species.) It was a warm, sunny day, so during my lunch break I went to the… Read More ›
An End of Thinking
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 September 2012 Note: A revised version of this essay (and shorter besides!) was published in July 2013 in The Chronicle of Higher Education. For a pdf of this revised text click here. There is that moment,… Read More ›
Ridiculous!
FROM NO SEQUENCE October 2002 I know of a country in which people are fined if they don’t vote. Voting is considered a duty not a privilege. Imagine the field day the United States media would have were such an… Read More ›
