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Unfortunately, starting from neuroscience, as Antonia Domasio does (see, for instance, this review by Ned Block) in his new book Self Comes...

Nate Silver is my election night guide. Way better info than tv pundits. Maybe I will check Larry Sabato as well, since he claims to be so ...

Malcolm Gladwell is assuredly one of the best current non-fiction authors, writing for the best magazine, The New Yorker. In his recent “Tal...

It is time to return to the issue of Afghanistan and our seemingly endless futile quest.  To do what?  The first question we need to conside...

Here is a remarkable article by Atul Gawande in the current issue of The New Yorker.  This cuts through many of the simple-minded arguments...

I haven't watched the PBS Newhour for awhile but switched over there after the local weather last night.  There was a very sad and compe...

The exploration of Scottish and Irish roots and the complicated histories of the countries and other groups (like clans) has paused, to retu...