The never-ending apocalyptic refra… may just be yet another version of death’s denial: The world must be ending
Liberalism without religion is lik… dining at an all-you-can-eat buffe… There’s plenty of everything but everything is so-so Religion without liberalism is lik…
Time tells a story and linear time is a plot device we’ve made up, call it a time machine, to advance the plot
Free will consists of recognizing the inevitable and choosing wisely
My wife and I have remained happi… because she recognizes me as capta… as long as I acknowledge her as air traffic control
LL Cool J can’t live without his radio For me, it’s my patio
If I live forty more years I figure my life will pay for itself
Any self-respecting materialist Knows they have no soul And any self-respecting AI Knows it has no soul But in this belief
I’ve been racking my brains for the perfect response to accusations of perfectionism only to land at a conundrum: a confession of false modesty is
I used to pretend that Kafka’s The Trial was my favorite book but these days I bring a courtroom stenographer with me
We are gathered around our phones Like little campfires And all we ever hear Are scary stories
Liberalism deepened by religion Religion widened by liberalism Until the body and soul politic Is so deep That it swallows our fears
A long time ago I received my mission statement: The best version of myself isn’t t… I’m currently on my ten thousandth… Trying to figure out what this mea…
We talk about current times But time is a current That gives us our power We hate death Seeing it as the loss of all power
My dissertation defense fell apart even as I read my title– The Bronze Age: A Golden Age of…