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Collected copies of my recent Amazon book reviews
Introductory page for my book G.O.D. Is Great
Stub for a notes page for my book G.O.D. Is Great
Introductory page for my 2009 Globorg book plan
List of my main publications since
1991, mostly with PDF downloads
Photos taken during a pleasant walk in Schwetzingen Schlossgarten
Photos taken during a pleasant walk in the springtime sunshine
A page of photos taken in or near
Schwetzingen Schloßgarten
Introductory page for my draft
book Godblogs
Brief history of the facts of my life,
presented as a mini-autobiography
Introductory page for my
philosophy book Mindworlds
Group photo of old Exonians who dined together in Zurich in 2008
17 photos of me taken in November 2007, 5
taken in January 2008
Outline for a speculative book on life,
the universe and everything
Some aircraft at Yeovilton Air Day, July 8,
2006
Montreux, Switzerland, where I was on a
business trip in May 2006
Extended review of books by Penrose and
Wolfram published in JCS
Zurich, on the occasion of an old boys
reunion, June 24, 2005
Me at Exeter College Oxford in June 28, 2003,
and October 1969
Captain Pom vs the Grumians, text for a fun
cartoon strip I wrote in 1999
Introductory page for my 1996
science-fiction novel Lifeball
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2010-06-04
2010-05-10
2010-06-21
2010-06-05
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
2010-05-20
2010-06-09
2010-05-20
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
2010-05-31
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2010-05-31
2010-06-05
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Physics
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The LHC could find not only the Higgs but also evidence for supersymmetry
A biography of Paul Dirac and a new account of the Pauli-Jung correspondence
Two recent experiments confirm that quantum entanglement is real
Tim Palmer uses fractal geometry for phase space to tackle
quantum puzzles
David Albert sees a threat to special relativity from quantum
nonlocality
A gravity-wave detector may have detected the quantum
jitters of spacetime
A new catalyst is discovered for turning sunlight
and water into hydrogen
John Updike, George Johnson, and John Derbyshire on aspects of Einstein
Do black holes destroy information or not?
Leonard Susskind reports
The Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Geneva
Three physicists show how to reconstruct the
universe from tiny triangles
Marcus de Sautoy on symmetry and the work of
Thompson and Tits
NASA has found a practical way to build large
telescopes on the moon
NASA finds more planets, news of the Kepler and James Webb telescopes
A. Garrett Lisi's "exceptionally simple
theory of everything" based on E8
The International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor
Hugh Everett III and his relative state
theory of quantum mechanics
Itzhak Bars has a new two-dimensional theory
of time
Michael J. Disney's doubts about
contemporary cosmology
Quantum theorist David Deutsch reviews
Douglas Hofstadter's new book
QED pioneer Freeman Dyson ponders our biotech
future
Lee Smolin reviews several recent books
about Einstein
Christopher Isham and Andreas Döring
present a topos foundation for physics
My review of a Springer book on the
foundations of quantum mechanics
My reviews of two physics books in the
Springer Frontiers Collection
My brief outline of a textbook by Barton
Zwiebach on string theory
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2010-05-31
2009-09-12
2009-05-10
2009-04-01
2009-03-10
2009-08-13
2008-10-20
2008-10-14
2008-09-13
2008-09-11
2008-06-26
2008-06-12
2008-06-11
2008-03-25
2008-01-20
2008-01-19
2007-12-04
2007-10-20
2007-08-20
2007-08-13
2008-05-27
2007-06-03
2010-06-05
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
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Other Sciences
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Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini have written an unfortunate book about
evolution
By all accounts the Singularity Summit 2009 in New York was a
big success
Don't laugh: Ray Kurzweil thinks he has a shot at living forever
Economics is not a natural science, says Douglas Rushkoff
Geo-engineering can halt global warming quickly
and cheaply, but with risks
Evolutionary biology is waking up to group,
species, and ecosystem selection
Our understanding of the human genome has
advanced rapidly in recent years
Supercomputer performance has just passed the petaflops
milestone
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2010-05-17
2009-10-09
2009-10-06
2009-09-07
2009-06-20
2009-03-10
2008-11-21
2008-11-21
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Social and Political Studies
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Robert Wright contemplates the emerging global superorganism
A panoply of luminaries present their visions for the year 2020
John Rawls published an influential theory of justice in 1971
Philip Tetlock reviews three books that offer geopolitical prophecy
The next few decades may herald the emergence of the Nöosphere
Sigmund Freud critiques civilization and John Armstrong
defends it
Alain de Botton writes a bad book on work and
Andrew Ross writes a good one
Life in office cubicles is not good for the human spirit: a
philosophical protest
The European policy of tolerating immigrant cultural differences
has backfired
Fareed Zakaria analyzes global trends regarding
Islam and American power
The financial crisis has exacerbated the accelerating ruin of US
higher education
Robert Solow highlights the role of leverage in causing
the financial crisis
Former IMF chief economist offers crisis advice
to the US government
Roger Scruton ponders the sacred and the
human, forgiveness and irony
The British character has changed in recent
decades, says Theodore Dalrymple
Paul Krugman recommends Keynesian action to stave
off global depression
The US National Intelligence Council issues its
report Global Trends 2025
George Soros explains the financial crisis with his new theory
Chris Hitchens laments Sarah Palin's ignorance of science
The American love-hate relationship with biker
outlaws on chopped hogs
Quentin Skinner tries to
explain Thomas Hobbes on republican liberty
The classical Greek virtues
may be unfashionable but they are real
Neoconservative guru Leo Strauss and his
philosophy and background
Edward Luttwak argues
that Bush 43 will soon seem as successful as Truman
Steve Stein tries to balance climate greenery and
U.S. oil independence
Peter Thiel sees market implications in the risk of apocalypse
Roger Sandall on religion and violence
John Gray on apocalyptic religion and on
environmentalism
Review of books by Mandelbaum and Reich
on capitalism and democracy
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and his
Mormon background
Global warming: how good is the
evidence and what does it show?
Caleb Crain contemplates the decline of
book culture
Richard Jenkyns and Jonathan Sacks ask
whether we need a literary canon
A report on the world in 2030 and an
account of Google in the cloud
Walter Russell Mead on Jews and Wasps
Robert Putnam considers diversity in America
Chalmers Johnson's apocalyptic trilogy on
the American republic
Oil was the most convincing reason for starting
the Iraq war
Ayn Rand was a key figure for many,
including Alan Greenspan
Al Gore and his new book on reason and the
environment
Norman Podhoretz makes the case for
bombing Iran
Recalling Oswald Spengler on the decline of
the West
A book by Sheri Berman as recommended
reading for Gordon Brown
Wendy Shalit on the new phenomenon of girls
gone wild
My unimpressed reaction to Jimmy Carter's
book on the Palestinians
Mark Steyn on the imminent end of
civilization as we have known it
Tony Blair on Middle East policy, Los
Angeles, August 2006
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2010-01-03
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2009-08-29
2009-07-18
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2009-05-14
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2008-12-06
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2008-11-22
2008-11-09
2010-05-31
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2008-10-12
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2008-09-20
2008-08-14
2008-05-10
2008-03-24
2008-02-09
2010-05-17
2008-01-11
2008-01-08
2008-05-27
2007-12-19
2007-12-11
2007-12-03
2007-11-18
2007-11-03
2008-05-03
2007-10-10
2010-06-02
2007-09-11
2007-09-11
2007-08-24
2007-08-01
2010-06-03
2006-11-28
2010-05-30
2010-05-17
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Business Life
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The IBM Watson system will soon be competing in the TV quiz show Jeopardy
Amazon and Apple are spearheading a digital publishing revolution
HPI researchers have developed an imaginary interface for mobile devices
Goldman Sachs is a great vampire squid that profited from five big bubbles
Google may be about to monopolize access to all printed information
A vast deposit of black shale can provide natural gas for decades
Robot engineer Edward Boyden says the Singularity
could be a fixed point
Bloggers are causing the biggest news revolution since printed newspapers
SAP CTO Vishal Sikka has deep views on the future of enterprise applications
IEEE Spectrum Special Report on the Singularity
Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold is the king of high-tech patents
The cloud and the grid, Google and CERN, the future of online life
Shai Agassi plans to deploy fleets of electric cars in Israel and Denmark
Sunseeker yachts are expensive and exclusive, and built in Poole
World-Wise Web: the semantic web, Tim
Berners-Lee, Wikipedia, mashups
The new Aerion supersonic carbon bigfoot
will thrill some businessmen
SAP is making a big push to embrace small and
mid-sized enterprises
SAP in India and an essay on the Indian
middle class
Photos of me representing SAP at an IBM
workshop in Frankfurt
SAP Developer Network blog I wrote on natural
language frontends
Group photo of my SAP NetWeaver TREX team in
September 2006
SAP Labs SVP Ike Nassi on programming
languages and computing
Abstract of a paper I coauthored on data
mining with my team's engine
Photos of the 27th Annual International ACM
SIGIR, Sheffield, July 25-29, 2004
Photos of me at the SAP DKOM, SAP
University, October 27-28, 2004
Photos of me and colleagues on a visit to
SAP Labs, Atlanta, Georgia
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2010-06-17
2010-06-11
2010-06-10
2010-05-17
2010-05-20
2009-10-15
2009-09-04
2009-09-04
2009-08-05
2008-09-04
2008-05-18
2008-04-06
2008-05-17
2008-03-30
2008-03-12
2007-12-13
2007-09-18
2007-09-02
2010-05-17
2010-03-21
2010-05-17
2009-10-18
2010-06-01
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
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Islam and Islamism
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Americans inherited Islamist agents from the Nazis and now regret it
A formerly well regarded U.S. imam is now in Yemen preaching jihad
Egypt and the Arabs: a scholarly overview of the state of play
Two books by Muslim women suggest that Sharia is an intolerable system
Pankaj Mishra writes about Islam, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and writing
Tariq Ramadan is disturbed by the Swiss refusal to accept more minarets
A new book on Islam in Europe claims that a revolution has occurred
On the censorship of a novel about the young wife of the prophet Mohamed
Two al Qaeda founding figures, Dr. Fadl and Dr.
Zawahiri, disagree
Selection of 2008 press stories about
Islam that provoked my ire
Nine new books on Jihadist fundamentalism help us
analyze its dynamic
Stanley Kurtz reviews a book by Philip Carl
Salzman on Arab tribalism
Geert Wilders is under
pressure to suppress his new movie about Islam
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on a book by Lee Harris
plus article by Lee Harris on jihad
Intriguing review of an apparently
misjudged book about Islamic Spain
Reviews of Edward Said, Western
Orientalists, and Ibn Warraq on Islam
Moez Masoud is a Muslim televangelist
who offers a hint of hope for us all
James Pinkerton on Samuel Huntingdon on
Christendom and Islam
Achievements and limitations of the
historic Islamic pursuit of science
Ian Buruma attempts to make the liberal case
for tolerating Islamism
Summary of authoritative lecture by Bernard
Lewis on Islam
Richard Wolin on the problem of tolerating
intolerant Muslims in Europe
Two critical reviews of a nasty book by
Dinesh D'Souza on 9/11
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2010-06-21
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
2010-05-25
2010-05-30
2010-05-31
2010-05-31
2008-08-17
2008-05-31
2008-05-18
2008-05-16
2008-04-07
2008-03-15
2008-04-20
2008-03-03
2010-05-31
2007-12-02
2007-09-12
2007-08-10
2007-04-27
2007-04-16
2010-06-03
2008-03-16
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Arts and Letters
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Sven Birkerts laments the difficulty of reading novels in the web age
The Pregnant Widow is the latest novel by Martin Amis
Gertrude Himmelfarb writes on how George Eliot wrote Daniel Deronda
Robert McCrum interviews young British novelist Sarah Waters
Robert McCrum reports how George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four
Martin Amis says men are terrible but they just
can't help it
Adam Kirsch reviews Europe via novels by
Sebald, Houellebecq, and McEwan
Illustrated souvenir page on Amis,
Fenton, Hitchens, McEwan, and Rushdie
Algis Budrys was an SF writer who wrote
about deep human themes
Ian McEwan looks at the role of religious
revelation in recent history
Martha Nussbaum reviews
some philosophers' books on Shakespeare
Will Self has written a good body of literature
including The Book of Dave
Reviews of Martin Amis' collection of
writings on 9/11 and its aftermath
My cuts of reviews of Shalom Auslander's
memoir of growing up as a Jew
My illustrated cut of Colin McGinn's review
of Oliver Sacks on music
Illustrated celebration of Ian McEwan's
novel about Dunkirk and the movie
Reminiscence by David Lodge of Malcolm
Bradbury's famous television drama
Collection of press responses to Martin
Amis' pronouncements on Islamism
Reviews of Martin Amis' fanciful novel about
life in the Soviet gulags
Short cuts of some reviews of Tina Brown's
book on Princess Diana
Review of Ian McEwan's uncomfortable novella
about British honeymooners
My abbreviation of Martin Amis' review of a
novel by Ed Hussain
Roger Sandall reflecting on the
sexualization of everyday life
Page about Philip Pullman's trilogy for
children and the resulting movie
My abridgement of Martin Amis' essay on
"horrorism" (Islamist terrorism)
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2010-06-20
2010-06-20
2009-06-01
2009-05-11
2009-05-10
2009-04-10
2009-04-05
2010-06-02
2008-10-22
2008-05-31
2008-05-05
2008-03-23
2008-03-02
2008-03-02
2008-02-22
2008-01-15
2008-01-12
2007-12-17
2009-04-10
2007-07-16
2007-06-05
2010-06-05
2010-06-05
2010-06-05
2010-06-05
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Military and Security
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General McChrystal used Afghanistan as a laboratory for
counterinsurgency
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty needs more
political work to succeed
The British military presence in Yemen ended in the port of Aden in 1967
The National Security Agency is collecting and analyzing huge masses of data
James Kurth considers how the United States can exert power in the 21st century
Michael Howard reviews two new books on Winston Churchill as warlord
British defence news from operations to procurement to strategy
Anti-missile systems like Aegis, Patriot, and Iron Dome are maturing fast
Robot war machines are evolving fast and already perform numerous roles
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates reviews
national defense strategy
Michael Eisenstadt asserts that Barack Obama will
be a wartime president
Conflict in Georgia: news and analysis from the global press
Terrorist and weapons of mass destruction will
converge one day
Oil hits $130, Iran has oil and gas, the U.S. or
Israel may attack Iran
Counterinsurgency: the challenge for the U.S. Army
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to be reviewed by the Pentagon
New York Review essay on the nuclear arms
race and the Pakistan bomb
Illustrated celebration of the 60th birthday
of the United States Air Force
Illustrated cut of an essay advocating U.S.
resolution on the Iraq war
Hoover Institution Policy Review essay on
U.S. foreign policy and Islam
My cut of an essay by Robert Kaplan on the
U.S. will to win against terror
Illustrated discussion of military
robots and their role in warfighting
Critical review of General Petraeus'
counter-insurgency policy in Iraq
Christopher Hitchens reports on the death
of a model American soldier
James Kurth on U.S. foreign policy in an age
of limited manpower
Hoover Institution Policy Review essay on
post-cold-war U.S. foreign policy
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2010-06-25
2010-05-17
2010-05-20
2009-10-15
2009-10-10
2009-08-09
2009-08-08
2009-03-28
2009-03-17
2008-12-06
2008-11-06
2008-09-07
2008-08-31
2008-05-22
2008-03-29
2008-03-26
2008-02-18
2008-02-15
2008-02-03
2008-01-24
2007-12-12
2007-12-01
2007-10-17
2007-10-05
2007-09-01
2007-07-24
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History
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From start to finish, the
Third Reich was destined for disaster
Hitler's library offers a few insights into the mind
of a tyrant
Ludwig Wittgenstein
came from an extremely dysfunctional family
Andrew Roberts reveals new facts about
Churchill's War Cabinet
Niall Ferguson reflects on
the brevity of the Third Reich
Charles Darwin first publicized his theory of
evolution 150 years ago
Adam Kirsch debunks another bad book by Pat
Buchanan on World War 2
Wernher von Braun made
rockets from V2 to Saturn V: a new biography
Book review: Postwar Britain endured bitter
austerity from 1945 to 1951
New books on Winston Churchill question his
conduct of World War II
From 1941 to 1945 the Mufti of Jerusalem lived as
an honored guest in Berlin
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits the
UK and addresses Parliament
Nicolson Baker's book on the origins of World War
II is no good at all
Illustrated review of Operation
Barbarossa and the Soviet defeat of Nazism
New York Review essay on the problem of evil
and the Holocaust
Illustrated celebration of the ancient
Greek gods and their advantages
Illustrated memorial of the early Chinese
emperor Qin and his army
Harvard Magazine review of the life and
works of Niall Ferguson
My cut of Francis Fukuyama on the history at
the end of history
My own review of Niall Ferguson's big book on
the Second World War
My critical review of "war nerd" Gary
Brecher on the Second World War
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2009-04-16
2009-03-06
2008-11-13
2008-09-20
2008-09-21
2008-08-03
2008-06-21
2008-05-25
2008-05-21
2008-05-12
2008-04-14
2008-03-27
2008-03-16
2008-02-12
2008-01-29
2007-11-02
2007-08-26
2007-05-04
2007-04-16
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
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Psychology and Neuroscience
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Carl Gustav Jung wrote a wonderful Red Book
for himself, first published now
Blue Brain is showing all the right
signs as the simulation improves
Jane O'Grady reacts with shock and horror to the
eliminative materialists
Every time a memory is recalled it must be
reconsolidated and can be changed
What Bill Joy, Bill Gates and the Beatles have in
common is lots of practice
Emily Singer presents some stunningly detailed
views inside living brains
Oliver Sacks reports on a well documented
outbreak of manic depression
Belated report in English of the Haynes version
of the Libet experiment
Israel Rosenfield and Edward Ziff on how the mind
works
Hirnforschung: Berliner Prof. J.-D. Haynes bringt
den freien Willen in Frage
John Derbyshire's blog of Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008
The IBM Blue Brain project to model a
mammalian pyramidal column
Scientists have used
MRI scans to predict which images viewers see
Report on production of synthetic DNA and
artificial life
Fascinating speculation on the neurological
roots of fundamentalism
Sigmund Freud was a premodern pioneer of
paradigms for psychology
Some reviews of Henry Stapp's quantum physics
of consciousness
Illuminating review of the psychopharmacology
of love
The roles of erotic and platonic love in
contemporary U.S. academic life
Response by Michael Zimmerman to my JCS
essay on our robot future
Response by Stephen Robbins to my JCS
essay on our robot future
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2009-09-20
2009-07-16
2009-05-31
2009-04-23
2008-11-16
2008-11-16
2008-09-16
2008-06-28
2008-06-22
2008-04-20
2008-04-19
2008-03-13
2008-04-29
2007-12-17
2007-10-01
2008-04-27
2007-08-27
2007-08-03
2007-07-16
2008-03-16
2010-05-17
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Religion and Atheism
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David Hart directs some fine polemic against the New
Atheists
Robert Wright reflects on the globalizing pull of
the Abrahamic religions
New work on the evolution and economics of religion
looks promising
Terry Eagleton prefers Aquinean mysticism to the hard
words of "Ditchkins"
Richard Wolin thinks faith is making a comeback
and cites Charles Taylor
Brendan O'Neill spikes the flaws in a shrill New Atheist movie
called Religulous
Two books on evolution and religion draw the fire of the
Edge Reality Club
Michael Brooks reviews recent results on the
psychosocial origins of religion
Alex Byrne on the ontological argument and arguments by design for God
Bede Griffiths on transcending the ego via love
and meditation
Nobel physicist Steven
Weinberg reflects on the decline of religion
Richard Holloway is a former bishop who writes popular books on ethics
Dan Dennett airs his
views in Templeton journal Science & Spirit
Stuart Kauffman on the theme of his new book
Reinventing the Sacred
My link-decorated cut of a review by John Gray of recent atheist books
Explaining Religion is a European science project to study
religious belief
Alan Wolfe on the inexorable
progress worldwide of secularization
Edited works by Theodore Dalrymple,
including his review of atheist books
Report of a lunchtime chat with
Christopher Hitchens in Washington, D.C.
Miscellany of reactions to Richard Dawkins'
book-length rant against God
Extended set of texts on and by Mark
Lilla and Charles Taylor on religion
My cut of two reviews of Rémi Brague on the
roots of divine law
Christopher Hitchens reports on his own
best-seller, Richard Dawkins too
David Sloan Wilson argues that Richard
Dawkins is wrong about religion
My pairing of an outraged review of
Hitchens and a bland review of Jesus
Brief report of Niall Ferguson's prediction
that Islam could sweep Europe
My cut of a long review of the God books by
Harris, Dennett, and Dawkins
Mary Eberstadt on how the West lost both
religion and big families
My cut of an Edge page by Elaine Pagels on
the Gospel of Judas
Reviews of Pope Benedict XVI on Jesus of
Nazareth and on dialectics
Christopher Hitchens reports on Islamic
penetration of his native London
New Yorker report on Christopher Hitchens
and other militant atheists
My own earnest statement presenting a
secular answer to fundamentalism
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2010-05-17
2010-05-20
2010-05-31
2009-07-11
2009-06-16
2009-04-11
2009-03-15
2009-02-04
2009-01-15
2009-08-23
2008-09-24
2008-09-12
2009-05-16
2008-05-22
2010-05-17
2008-03-21
2008-02-25
2008-01-28
2008-01-16
2008-04-27
2010-06-08
2007-10-15
2007-09-06
2007-07-24
2007-07-17
2007-06-16
2008-04-27
2007-06-10
2007-06-03
2007-05-22
2007-05-21
2007-05-17
2009-10-18
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Philosophy and Consciousness
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David Gelernter ponders the difference between human and artificial thought
Two New Humanist gems: Scruton on Pessimism and Grayling on evil
The philosophies of Nietzsche and Heidegger cover some horrible slime
John Gray mounts a fundamental attack on A.C. Grayling's philosophy
Martin Heidegger was a Nazi, but this is the least troubling part of his legacy
Thomas Nagel reviews Galen Strawson's revisionary metaphysics of the self
Jerry Fodor takes a penetrating poke at Michael Tye on externalism
The 13th annual meeting of the ASSC took place in Berlin in June 2009
Thomas Metzinger's new book The Ego Tunnel follows Being No One
Giles Fraser on Friedrich Nietzsche on the genealogy of morals
Michael Rosen on Allen Wood on Immanuel Kant
American philosopher Stanley Fish deconstructs French philosophy
My summary of my current stance on panpsychism,
and Fodor on Strawson
Press response to the fight between Ted
Honderich and Colin McGinn
Philosopher Saul Kripke turns 65
Martin Heidegger: his philosophy and
Hannah Arendt
Chris Frith and others on brain scans and the
new view of mind
Review of the philosophy of Richard Rorty
Review of Douglas Hofstadter's 2007 book on
strange loops
An interview with 1970s cult philosopher
Robert Pirsig
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2010-07-24
2010-06-10
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
2010-05-31
2010-05-31
2009-10-18
2009-06-20
2009-03-21
2008-12-14
2008-11-01
2008-04-21
2008-03-25
2008-01-17
2007-12-13
2007-09-19
2007-09-02
2007-06-27
2007-06-12
2006-11-26
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Middle East and Asia
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Global press reaction to the botched Israeli
raid on ships with aid for Gaza
Aaron David Miller despairs at 40 years of
a stalled Mideast peace process
Ian Bremmer predicts an economic cold war
between China and the West
Gordon Chang looks pessimistically at the future
of China
William Dalrymple has written a moving
account of religious life in India
The People's Republic of China celebrated
its 60th anniversary with missiles
Robert Baer presents the case that Iran
will be the next Middle East hegemon
Martin Amis reviews the history of Iran
and the reasons for remaining wary
Tariq Ali updates us on Pakistani
military action against the Taliban
A review of three recent books on Iran and
its revolution adds depth to the news
Obama will have a hard time selling the
two-state solution in the Middle East
Pakistan has been culpably negligent in
facing up to its fundamentalist threat
The Chinese Communist Party is adapting
itself to keep up with the times
The Pakistani offensive against Taliban forces is just in time
Greg Sheridan defends Israel against growing Arab anti-Semitism
David Samuels explains why he thinks Israel will bomb Iran
Three wise men advise President Obama on how to deal with Iran
The security situation in Pakistan is tending toward catastrophe
Demolishing Hamas and learning the lessons of the Lebanon war of 2006
Christopher Hitchens and Joshua Hammer on the Mumbai atrocity
The Iraq war may deserve a "VI Day" just to let the vets achieve closure
A divorce in Israel highlights the risks of
converting to Judaism
Israel news: F-22 Raptors, lame ducks, taking out
Hamastan, ...
Love and marriage in Saudi Arabia and murder of a
daughter in Iraq
Li Yang is China's Elvis of English and the founder of Crazy English
Saudi despots are shamefully successful at subverting justice in the UK
Some recent developments in the Gaza Strip
My cut of Tariq Ali on Pakistan at 60 and
some notes on Benazir Bhutto
Pictorial celebration of the Chinese city of
Dalian and its ladies
Analysis of the Chinese
politico-economic system and comparison with Japan
Critical analysis of the environmental costs
of Chinese economic growth
My cut of Avishai Margalit on Israel as a
moral compass
Tariq Ali reviews Saudi Arabia and its
corrupt politics
Discussion of the implications of
joint Chinese-Russian military exercises
Gadi Taub on liberalism, democracy and
the Jewish state
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