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2021
- #80: There is No Alternative to Dialog and Debate
- #79: The Need for the Public Understanding of Humanities and Social Science Theory
- #78: What Is Social Justice – and What Isn’t
- #77: Animal Personalities
- #76: We Need No Saviors
- #75: There are no “Internal Matters”
- #74: On the Difference Between Scientific and Mythological Thinking
- #73: The Destruction of Creativity through “Social” Media
- #72: Can We Trust The Media?
- #71: The Improvement of Society Never Ends
- #70: Poem: WAKE FOR A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE
- #69: No, American Democracy is Not Dead
- #68: We Do Not Need Enemies
2020
- #67: This Perfect Virus Exploits Our Weaknesses
- #66: Democracy Needs Well-Educated Citizens
- #65: Sine Ira et Studio: The Strength of Dispassionate Criticism
- #64: The Illusion of Brexit
- #63: Doubt and Faith in Religion
- #62: Democracy is a Consensus-Creation Machine
- #61: We All Need to Appreciate Each Other
- #60: How We Know that the New Coronavirus Is a Real Threat
- #59: Why Really Big Conspiracies Cannot Exist
- #58: Question Everything; But Also Yourself
- #57: What Is Science?
- #56: Disentangling Race and Ethnicity
- #55: It’s The Uncertainty That Makes Us Worry
- #54: The Dictator as False Messiah: A Belated Review of Game Of Thrones Season 8
- #53: What Is “Left”? A Very Erratic Attempt
- #52: Crisis Fatigue
- #51: The Politics of Division Cannot Work
- #50: The Value of the Musical Long Form
- #49: Nature Demands Humility
- #48: Moderation is Strength; Radicality is Weakness
- #47: And Soon, For Something Completely Different…
- #46: We Need to Move Beyond the Left/Right Paradigm
- #45: Benefit of the Doubt
- #44: There is Too Much “Now” Today
- #43: “Worst Persons” in the World: Hate is the New Normal
- #42: Be the World You Want It to Be
- #41: Corona Funk
- #40: Enabling Free Speech, or, the Problem of the Public Sphere
- #39: Free Speech is Absolute
- #38: Radical Empathy
- #37: Coronavirus, the Amfortas Wound?
- #36: Diversity Is Democracy, and It Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
- #35: What Is Social Constructivism?
- #34: What is White Privilege?
- #33: Race Does Not Exist. But Racism Does
- #32: Guilt vs. (Historical) Responsibility
- #31: What Is Systemic Racism?
- #30: What Is Racism?
- #29: Black Lives Do Matter
- #28: Violent Protest Does Not Work
- #27: What is Peace?
- #26: Coronavirus is a Thief
- #25: Legitimate and Illegitimate Arguments Regarding the Coronavirus Shutdown
- #24: Conspiracy Thinking is Not Critical Thinking
- #23: We Need to Take the Virus Seriously
- #22: There Are No “Alternative” News Sources
- #21: Media: Don’t Tell People What To Think
- #20: Exiled
- #19: “Believe all Women”
- #18: What’s Left: Communism, Socialism, Progressivism, Social Democracy, and the Value of Dissent
- #17: Coronavirus: This is the Apocalypse
- #16: Coronavirus and Democracy
- #15: Happiness
- #14: The European Project Needs Both Unity and Disunity
- #13: Poem: PASSOVER
- #12: We Are All Just Human Beings, and We Are All Predictably Stupid
- #11: Authoritarian Governments Must Lie, and Democracies are Grown-Up Systems
- #10: Corona, or, Nothing Important Is Happening Today
- #9: Dialectical Thinking
- #8: Poem: AT THE HOUR OF THE WOLF
- #7: We’re Headed in the Wrong Direction: Retirement Policy
- #6: Star Trek Discovery: Mea Culpa
- #5: Democracy Means Humility
- #4: How We Win
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