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Portraits of Andy Ross, 2017−2022
A sunny morning seafront walk, 2021-11-02
A morning walk beside the beach, Poole Bay, Easter Sunday 2021
Remembrance Sunday 2020: A photographic recollection of my father's role
A photographic chronicle of a walk around Middle Beach on Studland Bay
A photographic chronicle of a walk along the seafront during the lockdown
A photographic chronicle of my time as a Poole Rotarian
A photographic chronicle of my 5 years as a Conservative activist
New PLA weapons on parade, Tian'anmen Square, Beijing, October 1, 2019
Tiger Day, Bovington Tank Museum: 34 photos taken on September 14, 2019
Bournemouth Air Festival: 12 photos taken on September 1, 2019
A walk to Swanage: 12 photos taken on August 5, 2019
Poole Bay: 8 photos taken on April 8, 2019
My vacation in Germany, February/March 2019
Poole sun during winter snow crisis in Britain, February 2019
The Brittany ferry Barfleur sets off to France, January 2019
The Tiger Collection, Bovington Tank Museum, September 2018
Tiger Meet: Tiger Day X, Bovington Tank Museum, September 2018
Bournemouth Air Festival, September 2018
Poole − Nothe Fort − Weymouth, August 2018
Farnborough International Airshow, July 2018
Royal Air Force Centenary, July 2018
Another walk to Swanage, February 2018
A walk to Swanage, September 2017
A walk to Peveril Point, August 2017
A stroll along the prom to Bournemouth, July 2017
A hike to Swanage, August 2016
My new apartment in Canford Cliffs, October 2015
Vacation in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, September 2013
My room in Poole, illustrating my life 11 weeks after the Return
Poole, illustrating my life 4 weeks after the Return
A pair of lakes at the end of a jogging trail, February 2013
My Schwetzingen apartment, showing how much stuff I had
A walk in the woods with a group of Schwetzingen friends
Portraits of me at SAP on December 14, 2012
Portraits of me at SAP on December 17, 2010
A pleasant walk in Schwetzingen Schloßgarten
A pleasant walk in the springtime sunshine
In or near Schwetzingen Schloßgarten
Group photo of old Exonians who dined together in Zurich in 2008
Portraits of me, 12 from November 2007 and 5 from January 2008
Me at Exeter College Oxford in June 28, 2003, and October 1969
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Personal
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A schematic and photographically illustrated autobiography
Introductory page for my 2022 novel ALBION
Introductory page for my political novel Britizen Jon
A miscellany of jokes that require learning to appreciate
Basic bibliographic details of my books, with links and more
An ultraminiature autobiography, for those who want it short
The introductory page for my 2013 book Coral: The Next Twist Of Fate
Readers' notes page for my little 2012 book Christ: A Tall Story
Shaping virtual lives: a proceedings volume that I co-edited
Introductory page for my philosophical autobiography
List of my main publications since 1991, many with PDF downloads
My recent Amazon book reviews republished in chronological order
Wise sayings in Arabic and German from Schwetzingen Schloßgarten mosque
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
Introductory page for my draft book Godblogs
Introductory page for my philosophy book Mindworlds
Extended review of books by Penrose and Wolfram published in JCS
Captain Pom vs the Grumians, text for a fun cartoon strip I wrote in 1999
Introductory page for my 1996 science-fiction novel Lifeball
My contact page
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Physics
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Particles in spacetime may boil down to qubits or the amplituhedron
The Frauchiger−Renner thought experiment reveals a new quantum paradox
The Samsung Wall big-screen TV introduces new microLED technology
Introduction to the Higgs boson and how it was found at the LHC
A purity principle might banish quantum weirdness
Geometric quantum gravity involves a structure called an amplituhedron
Quark stars may be formed by the gravitational collapse of neutron stars
Steven Weinberg on religion, cosmology, and particle physics
Sending humans to Mars is far harder than sending them to the Moon
Lee Smolin has developed a strong case for taking time more seriously
Eric Weinstein has a theory of quantum gravity, dark energy, and Higgs
Richard Feynman, Nobelist for QED, has a new viral hit physics video
The European Space Agency makes plans for Ariane, Orion, the ISS, and Mars
The Square Kilometer Array will let astronomers map intergalactic hydrogen
The Apollo mission and a Mars mission push the bounds of human endeavor
Vlatko Vedral thinks thermodynamics can provide a new theory of everything
Amanda Gefter reflects on cosmic inflation and the no-boundary proposal
Brian Greene considers inflation, dark energy, strings, and the multiverse
Alan Lightman laments the accidentality of the anthropic string multiverse
Michael Longo thinks the universe might be spinning around the axis of evil
Lee Smolin et alia propose merging spacetime and momenergy in 8-space
Sean Carroll reviews an idea to merge the multiverse with quantum branching
QED pioneer Freeman Dyson on a miscellany of themes
Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, and Jeremy Bernstein on cosmology
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics and its meaning for cosmology
Breaking Lorentz symmetry at the Planck scale may give us quantum gravity
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
Tim Palmer uses fractal geometry for phase space to tackle quantum puzzles
David Albert sees a threat to special relativity from quantum nonlocality
John Updike, Lee Smolin, George Johnson, and John Derbyshire on 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
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
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2012-05-22
2011-12-21
2011-10-18
2011-08-11
2011-06-02
2019-06-07
2012-01-27
2010-12-13
2017-03-14
2013-10-14
2014-12-10
2014-05-02
2014-05-05
2012-01-17
2012-01-07
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2011-09-22
2012-09-15
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Other Sciences
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The Weil conjectures were big in mathematics for half a
century
Benoit Mandelbrot made a breakthrough in our
understanding of nature
Wikipedia summarizes EU and US rules on dietary
supplements
Matt Ridley scoffs at chemo, bio, demo, and minero
apocalypses
Nick Bostrom says we almost certainly live in a computer simulation
A new group is consolidating data and analyses on global
warming
Hugh Woodin proved that the continuum hypothesis is true in
ultimate L
Beluga whales are so sensitive that a scientist swam naked
for them
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
Evolutionary biology is waking up to group,
species, and ecosystem selection
Report on production of synthetic DNA and artificial
life
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2013-05-22
2013-05-08
2012-09-25
2012-08-18
2012-03-08
2012-03-07
2017-09-13
2011-06-17
2011-05-08
2014-12-10
2014-12-10
2014-12-10
2011-04-19
2012-08-28
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Social and Political Studies
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The Gambler: Tom Bower on Boris Johnson
EU foreign policy: Why Europe wins
State of the European Union Address 2020
Rolf Peter Sieferle und seine Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Oxford PPE graduates have quite a lock on UK politics
US grand strategy in the Trump era, from Foreign Policy
Donald Trump talks about politics for US newspapers
The 14th White Privilege Conference was a celebration of diversity
Margaret Thatcher deserves a full biography to record her career
The European Union wants a trillion dollars, but how will it spend it?
American Jews are unusually rich and well educated: Steven Weiss asks why
The United States of America are divided and defeated as never before
David Rieff on the dream and delusion of global democracy
Barack Obama outlines the road ahead in a Rolling Stone interview
The financial crisis has given new life to the Marxist analysis of capitalism
A survey shows that about half of young American women shave their vulvas
The United States of Europe is coming and the financial crisis is helping
Consolidated page of writings on or by philosopher John Gray
Andrew Berwick's overlong declaration of European independence
Dan Wilson's novel about robot apocalypse is good enough for Spielberg
Max Brooks imagines World War Z against zombies, now a major movie
Mark Lilla reflects on Chinese interest in Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt
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
The next few decades may herald the emergence of the Nöosphere
Life in office cubicles is not good for the human spirit: a philosophical protest
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 2008 financial crisis with his new theory
Quentin Skinner tries to explain Thomas Hobbes on republican liberty
Steve Stein tries to balance climate greenery and U.S. oil independence
Peter Thiel sees market implications in the risk of apocalypse
Review of books by Mandelbaum and Reich on capitalism and democracy
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and his Mormon background
Richard Jenkyns and Jonathan Sacks ask whether we need a literary canon
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
Wendy Shalit on the new phenomenon of girls gone wild
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2020-09-30
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2017-0-12
2017-02-24
2017-02-01
2017-07-20
2013-05-22
2013-04-28
2012-11-23
2012-11-12
2012-11-06
2012-10-27
2012-10-26
2013-04-20
2013-10-03
2011-12-03
2012-08-28
2018-06-03
2011-07-09
2013-06-02
2010-12-16
2010-07-26
2012-01-16
2014-12-10
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2020-01-15
2012-02-01
2008-11-25
2014-05-02
2014-04-28
2008-10-12
2008-05-10
2008-03-24
2012-08-28
2012-08-07
2012-08-17
2010-06-02
2010-12-28
2017-01-21
2017-07-05
2010-06-03
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Business Life
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The Paradise Papers reveal tax avoidance on a global scale
Big Data is changing the world for good
and ill via new analytic apps
Facebook Graph Search tackles deep
challenges and may change the game
Tom Wolfe reports on how the Masters of the
Universe became eunuchs
An IEEE special report on the history
and future of money
Deutsche Bank experts say a euro crash is
now a very likely scenario
Germany is taking big steps toward a
renewable energy hydrogen economy
The established publishers of science journals are
under online attack
History of the unfolding tragedy of the European
common currency
Solar photovoltaic tables for charging wireless devices are coming
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and a new kind of science
A review of three or four books on the growth of a global online mind
Trotz Griechenland und Irland bleibt der Euro robust
Should we change our morality to celebrate the selfish pursuit of money?
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
Bloggers are causing the biggest news revolution since printed newspapers
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
SAP is making a big push to embrace small and mid-sized enterprises
SAP in India and an essay on the Indian middle class
SAP Developer Network blog I wrote on natural language frontends
Group photo of my SAP NetWeaver TREX team in September 2006
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
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2013-10-24
2013-01-16
2013-01-06
2012-07-19
2012-06-26
2012-03-29
2012-01-17
2011-10-08
2011-07-03
2011-06-09
2011-06-06
2010-11-23
2010-09-19
2010-06-17
2010-08-04
2010-06-10
2012-03-15
2011-08-03
2014-12-07
2017-07-27
2014-04-24
2013-03-06
2013-05-31
2013-10-19
2014-04-16
2011-07-30
2010-12-28
2010-03-21
2018-01-03
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
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Islam and Islamism
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A British Museum exhibition on the pilgrimage to Mecca, the
Hajj
A new book describes the revolting religious sect called Shi'ism
A Pew survey projects global Muslim population growth by 2030
Americans inherited Islamist agents from the Nazis and now regret it
Pankaj Mishra writes about Islam, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and writing
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
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
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
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2012-08-25
2008-05-18
2012-01-16
2014-04-21
2010-05-31
2012-08-15
2010-12-28
2011-06-24
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Arts and Letters
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Inside Story, a novel by Martin Amis
Saul Bellow recalled as novelist, husband, and father
Karen Wiesner explains how to write a novel in 30 days
Hilary Mantel's Tudor-era historical novels are winning
prizes
David Foster Wallace: a memorial page
Early reviews of Ian McEwan's 13th novel Sweet Tooth
look good
Shame and Sleeping Beauty are both movies exploring the outer
limits of sex
Consolidated page of edited reviews on the life and work
of Martin Amis
Illustrated souvenir page on Amis,
Fenton, Hitchens, McEwan, and Rushdie
Chad Harbach reflects on the rise of MFA literary culture
Sven Birkerts laments the difficulty of reading novels in the web age
Adam Kirsch reviews Europe via novels by
Sebald, Houellebecq, and McEwan
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
My 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
Short cuts of some reviews of Tina Brown's
book on Princess Diana
Review of Ian McEwan's uncomfortable novella
about British honeymooners
Page about Philip Pullman's trilogy for
children and the resulting movie
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2013-05-26
2012-10-25
2013-11-09
2013-03-14
2012-08-28
2013-05-26
2021-08-08
2021-05-25
2010-11-30
2010-06-20
2011-01-02
2012-08-25
2014-04-23
2011-08-08
2014-04-14
2012-08-25
2012-09-08
2010-12-15
2010-12-14
2010-06-05
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Military and Security
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The British Trident SLBM nuclear
deterrent is due for replacement
Korean war is a renewed possibility as
Kim Jong Un pumps up the rhetoric
James Blitz reviews the British debate
on how to replace Trident
Bill Sweetman reveals USAF secret
stealth drone activities
Many scenarios have been worked out for
a war against Iran
Israel has based a nuclear strike
capability on German U-boats
The People's Republic of China is investing heavily in
military power
The IAEA report on Iran's nuclear weapons program with
IISS reaction
Remotely piloted aircraft represent the new wave in post-9/11
warfare
Das Panzergeschäft mit Saudi-Arabien ist politisch höchst
brisant
NATO is working on behalf of a broad-based coalition out of area in
Libya
LCS-2 USS Independence is ready for combat off the coast
of a hostile state
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
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
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to be reviewed by the Pentagon
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
Hoover Institution Policy Review essay on
post-cold-war U.S. foreign policy
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2013-04-11
2013-01-10
2012-12-11
2012-09-29
2012-06-05
2012-04-06
2011-11-12
2011-09-19
2011-10-14
2011-04-19
2011-04-01
2010-06-25
2010-05-17
2010-05-20
2014-12-07
2012-11-27
2014-05-05
2014-04-29
2012-08-17
2012-08-15
2011-01-09
2010-11-30
2010-12-17
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History
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British and German accounts of the person Adolf Hitler
Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler transformed the history of
Germany
The history of Germany from medieval times is central to
Europe
From start to finish, the
Third Reich was destined for disaster
Adam Kirsch reviews recent books on the moral ambiguities
of World War II
The neolithic revolution may have seen religion precede
agriculture
Collective page on the life and
historical writings of Niall Ferguson
Airfix model kits gave me a history lesson on aircraft
and their motors
A new book on the mass murder that Hitler and
Stalin committed together
An analysis of the duel that Hitler and
Churchill fought 70 years ago
Hitler's library offers a few insights into the mind
of a tyrant
Ludwig Wittgenstein
came from an extremely dysfunctional family
Andrew Roberts on
Churchill's War Cabinet and World War II
Charles Darwin first publicized his theory of
evolution 150 years ago
Adam Kirsch debunks another bad book by Pat
Buchanan on World War 2
Austerity in Britain was bitter 65 years ago and is
again now
New books on Winston Churchill question his
conduct of World War II
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
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2013-10-12
2015-01-14
2013-08-02
2011-11-21
2011-10-09
2011-05-19
2011-06-20
2010-12-25
2011-06-19
2011-06-20
2014-05-04
2011-04-28
2011-11-14
2014-04-26
2011-06-19
2013-05-12
2011-12-08
2011-06-19
2011-06-19
2013-08-01
2011-09-05
2010-12-19
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Psychology and Neuroscience
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Anil Ananthaswamy: Are brains like deep neural networks?
Eben Alexander is a Christian neurosurgeon who says he glimpsed heaven
Why is mental illness increasing in America if the drugs are so good?
David Eagleman is fascinated by how the brain gives us our perception of time
Iain McGilchrist has written what readers are calling a classic of psychology
Carl Gustav Jung wrote a wonderful Red Book for himself, first published now
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
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
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
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2020-10-29
2012-10-14
2013-12-29
2011-05-02
2011-03-09
2012-12-29
2014-04-29
2014-05-01
2012-11-06
2012-08-17
2011-09-13
2012-04-09
2017-09-30
2012-02-22
2011-01-09
2014-04-22
2010-12-28
2010-12-19
2010-12-15
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Religion and Atheism
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My meditation on the topic of retooling God for our
global community
Three commentators accuse three New Atheists of
Islamophobia
Bart Ehrman looks at the birth of Jesus and a new book
by the pope
Scott Atran reviews recent scientific research on religion
and sacred beliefs
Jesus may have spent many years in India and died of
old age there too
The Four Horsemen of the Atheocalypse reflect wide
loss of religious faith
Philosopher Jürgen Habermas said a lot about religion
in recent years
Geza Vermes reflects on the Jewish Christians of the first
century CE
Mark Johnston says that adherents of the
Abrahamic religions are idolaters
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"
Two books on evolution and religion draw the fire of the
Edge Reality Club
Alex Byrne on the ontological argument and arguments by design for God
Bede Griffiths on transcending the ego via love
and meditation
Dan Dennett airs his
views in Templeton journal Science & Spirit
Stuart Kauffman on the theme of his new book
Reinventing the Sacred
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
Mark Lilla and Charles Taylor on religion; the Templeton
Foundation
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
An outraged review of the Christopher Hitchens
book God Is Not Great
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
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2013-05-26
2013-04-21
2012-12-11
2012-11-11
2012-04-22
2012-02-07
2017-02-19
2012-07-11
2011-06-01
2013-10-29
2010-05-31
2014-11-26
2014-05-05
2014-05-02
2011-07-30
2014-11-23
2014-04-26
2014-04-12
2010-11-30
2012-01-16
2013-05-14
2011-01-09
2010-11-30
2010-12-17
2010-12-17
2012-08-14
2010-12-04
2010-12-14
2010-12-04
2010-11-30
2010-11-30
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Philosophy and Consciousness
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David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett ask whether superintelligence is possible
Colin McGinn throws it all away for a doomed affair with a young woman
Peter Sloterdijk's philosophy reviewed by Adam Kirsch
Michael Dummett was one of the most important philosophers of his time
Derek Parfit has spent much of his life on an ethical theory that seems wrong
Ned Block and John Searle on Self Comes To Mind by Antonio Damasio
Mindblindness: Were Wittgenstein and other philosophers autistic?
Sam Harris tries to create foundations for a new science of morality
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
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
American philosopher Stanley Fish deconstructs French philosophy
Press response to the fight between Ted Honderich and Colin McGinn
Philosopher Saul Kripke turns 65
Martin Heidegger: his philosophy, his love life, and his legacy
Chris Frith and others on brain scans and the new view of mind
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Centralasia is a land ripe for Chinese exploitation and Islamist agitation
TV news channel Al Jazeera comes from oil-rich Salafist Qatar
Press reports timeline for Israel versus Hamas, November 2012
Zhiqun Zhu on U.S.-China relations after the 2012 presidential debates
Japan responded poorly to the 3/11 nuclear disaster
The Obama administration gets a failing grade on Mideast peace talks
Pakistan news stories over the last few years: a list that gets longer
Jeffrey Goldberg, Christopher Hitchens and others on attacking Iran
Global press reaction to the botched Israeli raid on ships with aid for Gaza
Ian Bremmer predicts an economic cold war between China and the West
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
A review of three recent books on Iran adds depth to the news
The Iraq war may deserve a "VI Day" just to let the vets achieve closure
Israel news: F-22 Raptors, lame ducks, taking out Hamastan, ...
Love and marriage in Saudi Arabia and murder of a daughter in Iraq
Some 2008 developments in the Gaza Strip
Everything you needed to know in 2007 about China
My cut of Avishai Margalit on Israel as a moral compass
Recent reviews of Saudi Arabia and its conservative politics
Gadi Taub on liberalism, democracy and the Jewish state
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