Subcategories within the Category “Culture”:
List of all Posts in the Category “Culture”:
- #344: Always Check the Work A.I. Does. Hallucinations are Real (5/29/2026)
- #343: Appreciative Critique (5/22/2026)
- #338: At the Borders of the Human: UAP Disclosure, the Paranormal Counterpublic, and the Mediatization of American Political Culture (2/17/2026)
- #327: Sometimes, Boring Is Good: Finding Meaning in Moderation (12/2/2025)
- #318: A.I. Is Not Good Enough (Yet) (10/20/2025)
- #317: Between Enlightenment and Obscurity: Restoring the Democratic Promise of Science (10/13/2025)
- #315: Can A.I. Replace College? (10/8/2025)
- #308: Think Before You Post: How Social Media Affirms Our Worst Tendencies — And What We Can Do About It (9/15/2025)
- #306: On Happiness (9/8/2025)
- #303: What Is Bias? How Do You See It in Artificial Intelligence? (8/31/2025)
- #294: Does the Speed of Innovation Drive Unhappiness? (8/15/2025)
- #290: On Criticism vs. Hate (8/6/2025)
- #289: How We Speak to Each Other Matters (8/4/2025)
- #288: On Russophobia (7/31/2025)
- #287: The Need For Dialog (7/30/2025)
- #283: This Conversation with A.I. Surprised Me (7/23/2025)
- #281: A.I. Requires us to Know and Think More, Not Less. Some Reflections, With a Fascinating Bonus Response from AI (7/22/2025)
- #280: How Pseudo-Wokeness has Destroyed the Original Meaning of “Woke” (7/19/2025)
- #279: How Would You Rate This Interaction? (You Should Not) (7/14/2025)
- #278: We Hate Everyone: Against the Politics of Vitriol (6/24/2025)
- #277: Reflections on Graham Hancock: Adventures in “Pseudo-Science” (5/22/2025)
- #276: Is There an Easy and Fast Way to Know What is True or False? (5/12/2025)
- Poem: Little Bonsai Wants to Grow (4/18/2025)
- #259: These Insults Need to Stop (10/31/2024)
- #258: Ukraine Must Win. Understanding Russia’s Imperial Ambitions in Ukraine (9/24/2024)
- #257: New York and Me (9/11/2024)
- #254: What If I’m Wrong? (6/13/2024)
- #253: Some Thoughts on Structures and Systems (4/30/2024)
- #251: A Tale of Four Dunes (4/28/2024)
- #249: The Resistance Against Wokeness, Part II: Addressing Religious Objections (3/5/2024)
- #248: The Resistance Against Wokeness, Part I (2/26/2024)
- #243: Living in a Time of Frustration: Are We Living in Babylon 5, Season 5? (1/29/2024)
- µ#12: More Content on philjohn.com (1/14/2024)
- µ#11: Symphony 5, Movement I (11/16/2023)
- #240: Hope, Duty & the Future (11/12/2023)
- #235: Rumors of Putin’s Death (10/29/2023)
- #233: On Equity and Equality of Opportunity (10/23/2023)
- #228: Hamas Attacked Israel (10/7/2023)
- #226: We Must Not Give Up on Global Democracy (10/6/2023)
- #225: Religion, Transcendence & Nature (10/5/2023)
- Φ: Poem: Life Is A Wake (8/21/2023)
- Φ: Poem: Qaddish, Part 2.4 (8/21/2023)
- #222: Science Fiction and Comics Have Always Been Woke, or: Of Course Women and Minorities Can Be Heroes! (8/3/2023)
- #218: The West Is Not in Decline (6/20/2023)
- #215: Commonsense Diversity (6/12/2023)
- #214: “Race” as the Experience of Dehumanization (6/11/2023)
- #212: We Need to Build the Future Now: Spaceflight is not Optional (5/16/2023)
- #210: Why (Some Degree of) Identity Politics is Necessary (4/27/2023)
- #209: We Need to Control Artificial Intelligence (4/1/2023)
- #208: The Perversion of Everything Russian: From Leningrad to Mariupol (3/27/2023)
- #205: If You Want Peace: Why We Must Help Ukraine (1/16/2023)
- #204: Poem: Путин, идиот (Putin, You Idiot) (12/28/2022)
- #203: The Puzzling Resistance Against Anti-Racism (12/27/2022)
- #202: Fear Not: Why We Need to be Optimistic About the Future (12/27/2022)
- #201: Adventures in Artificial Intelligence: An Evening with ChatGBT (12/11/2022)
- #199: Why Positionality Matters (12/6/2022)
- #198: LGBTQ Rights are Human Rights (11/21/2022)
- #197: We Have Good Reasons for Hope (11/8/2022)
- #196: Poem: I Need to Believe (10/9/2022)
- #189: Soviet Monuments Need To Go (8/27/2022)
- #188: What Is “The West” Today? From “Civilization” to Cooperation (8/27/2022)
- #187: Words Are Not Violence (8/17/2022)
- #186: Salman Rushdie and the Case for Free Speech (8/17/2022)
- #185: Poem: Sometimes, There’s Nothing To Say (8/14/2022)
- #181: Are We too Stupid for the Internet? (7/30/2022)
- #179: Ecce Homo: Wokeness Beyond Caricatures (7/20/2022)
- #177: Thinking Beyond Caricatures (7/11/2022)
- #172: Poem: The Fleeting Self (7/5/2022)
- #162: Seize the Day (5/2/2022)
- #161: Poem: We All (4/28/2022)
- µ#9: Erratic Attempts YouTube Channel (4/23/2022)
- #159: Stop the Ukrainian Genocide (4/6/2022)
- µ#8: Will Smith Apologized; Let It Go (4/4/2022)
- #156: Politics, Arts and Sports: Some Erratic Reflections (3/17/2022)
- #150: Poem: Nunc Est (3/1/2022)
- #147: Why Should We Care About Ukraine? A Pragmatic Answer (2/27/2022)
- #142: Oh, Canada… (2/22/2022)
- #141: Is Wearing a Star of David Labeled “Unvaccinated” Anti-Semitic? (2/20/2022)
- #139: Nature Demands Humility: Lessons from Jurassic Park World (2/14/2022)
- #134: If People Apologize for Their Mistake, They Should Not Be Cancelled (2/3/2022)
- #133: Am I Really Not Paying Attention If I Am Not Outraged? (1/31/2022)
- #132: My Tablet Told Me to Try a Bedtime Alarm to Get More Sleep (1/27/2022)
- #131: Please Stop this Fascination with End-Times Rhetoric (1/26/2022)
- #128: Russia Is Part of the West (1/19/2022)
- #127: We Cannot Overcome Racism If We Talk About “Race” all the Time (1/18/2022)
- #123: Poem: Pretend We (12/31/2021)
- #121: Outrage Is Not a Successful Communication Strategy (11/28/2021)
- #118: The Voter is Always Right: The Meaning of Democracy (11/7/2021)
- #117: It’s Not About Trump. It’s About the Issues (11/4/2021)
- #113: The Protagonist Trap: Why Bond Cannot be “Woke” (9/26/2021)
- µ#5: Symphony 4 Is Finished (9/6/2021)
- #110: Poem: To Understand the World (8/20/2021)
- #108: Carefulness Is Not Fear (8/15/2021)
- #107: How (Not) to Be Unhappy (8/14/2021)
- #106: How to Be Happy (8/13/2021)
- #105: We May Think We’re Done with the Virus, but the Virus is not Done with Us (8/12/2021)
- #104: Psychological Long Covid (8/12/2021)
- #103: The Story About the Lone Renegate Scientist Showing That Everyone Else Is Wrong (8/6/2021)
- #100: Poem: One Moment in Time (5/30/2021)
- #99: Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism (5/29/2021)
- #97: Are We Prepared for Extraterrestrial Life? (5/22/2021)
- #96: We Need Neutral News Media (5/21/2021)
- #94: What Is Political Extremism Today? (5/13/2021)
- #93: Don’t Picture This: The Trouble With Selfies (5/6/2021)
- #90: In Defense of “Wokeness” (4/22/2021)
- #88: Nature Is the Best Meditation (4/13/2021)
- #87: Stargate as Classical Science Fiction (4/13/2021)
- #85: Anti-Asian Hate and the Human Capacity for Divisiveness (3/31/2021)
- #84: Panicking Is Not a Good Strategy (3/30/2021)
- #82: Only Logic Will Help Us Out of the Pandemic (3/25/2021)
- #80: There Is No Alternative to Dialog and Debate (2/23/2021)
- #79: The Need for the Public Understanding of Humanities and Social Science Theory (2/22/2021)
- #78: What Is Social Justice – and What Isn’t (2/18/2021)
- #76: We Need No Saviors (2/11/2021)
- #74: On the Difference Between Scientific and Mythological Thinking (2/8/2021)
- #73: The Destruction of Creativity through “Social” Media (1/31/2021)
- #72: Can We Trust The Media? (1/28/2021)
- #70: Poem: Wake for a World out of Balance (1/11/2021)
- #65: Sine Ira et Studio: The Strength of Dispassionate Criticism (12/14/2020)
- #61: We All Need to Appreciate Each Other (10/28/2020)
- #60: How We Know that the New Coronavirus Is a Real Threat (10/26/2020)
- #59: Why Really Big Conspiracies Cannot Exist (10/21/2020)
- #58: Question Everything; But Also Yourself (10/21/2020)
- #56: Disentangling Race and Ethnicity (10/17/2020)
- #54: The Dictator as False Messiah: A Belated Review of Game Of Thrones Season 8 (9/30/2020)
- #53: What Is “Left”? A Very Erratic Attempt (9/30/2020)
- #50: The Value of the Musical Long Form (9/11/2020)
- #45: Benefit of the Doubt (8/26/2020)
- #44: There is Too Much “Now” Today (8/26/2020)
- #43: “Worst Persons” in the World: Hate Is the New Normal (8/18/2020)
- #37: Coronavirus, the Amfortas Wound? (6/23/2020)
- #36: Diversity Is Democracy, and It Is Not a Zero-Sum Game (6/20/2020)
- #35: What Is Social Constructivism? (6/20/2020)
- #34: What is White Privilege? (6/20/2020)
- #33: Race Does Not Exist. But Racism Does (6/20/2020)
- #32: Guilt vs. (Historical) Responsibility (6/20/2020)
- #31: What Is Systemic Racism? (6/9/2020)
- #30: What Is Racism? (6/9/2020)
- #29: Black Lives Do Matter (6/8/2020)
- #27: What is Peace? (6/5/2020)
- #24: Conspiracy Thinking is Not Critical Thinking (5/18/2020)
- #22: There Are No “Alternative” News Sources (5/9/2020)
- #21: Media: Don’t Tell People What To Think (5/9/2020)
- #15: Happiness (4/14/2020)
- #14: The European Project Needs Both Unity and Disunity (4/11/2020)
- #13: Poem: Passover (4/9/2020)
- #8: Poem: At the Hour of the Wolf (1/18/2020)
- #6: Star Trek Discovery: Mea Culpa (1/6/2020)