Odin's Ravens

The more I consider it, the more I realize that attention, properly directed, is the solution to many of our difficulties.  We tend to unde...

Theoretical philosopher Thomas Metzinger warns we are being overwhelmed as “…social media and tech firms aim to maximize user engagement by ...

“(Trump) bears responsibility for what comes next, as do his allies and supporters,” wrote Timothy Snyder in The New Yorker. “Yet some, and ...

I measure my life In green springs seen, and in those I may yet enjoy.

For a propagandist, news isn’t relevant and/or interesting factual information to which the public is entitled. It’s a weapon to be deployed...

Whether or not determinism is true in a technical sense, obviously we have free will in a a practical, existential sense. Nothing about the ...

“He is Galahad and Socrates, bringing high adventure to our dull existences and calm, judicial logic to our biased minds,” wrote Edgar W. Sm...