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- #306: On Happiness (9/8/2025)
- #290: On Criticism vs. Hate (8/6/2025)
- #276: Is There an Easy and Fast Way to Know What is True or False? (5/12/2025)
- #256: Words Are Not Violence, But They Can Promote It (7/16/2024)
- #249: The Resistance Against Wokeness, Part II: Addressing Religious Objections (3/5/2024)
- #248: The Resistance Against Wokeness, Part I (2/26/2024)
- #240: Hope, Duty & the Future (11/12/2023)
- #229: Fighting for Love in Times of War (10/9/2023)
- #225: Religion, Transcendence & Nature (10/5/2023)
- #206: The Importance of Being Political (1/18/2023)
- #202: Fear Not: Why We Need to be Optimistic About the Future (12/27/2022)
- #199: Why Positionality Matters (12/6/2022)
- #193: De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bene: We Owe Respect to the Dead (9/10/2022)
- #184: Anecdotal Thinking, Science, Religion, and Policy (8/11/2022)
- #182: Reflections on Identity, Purpose, and the Active Life (7/31/2022)
- #181: Are We too Stupid for the Internet? (7/30/2022)
- #179: Ecce Homo: Wokeness Beyond Caricatures (7/20/2022)
- #167: The Pseudo-Problem of Theodicy and the Nature of Divinity (6/5/2022)
- #139: Nature Demands Humility: Lessons from Jurassic Park World (2/14/2022)
- #137: Live Every Day in Love (2/8/2022)
- #135: Conspiracy Belief, Science, Ego and Humility (2/3/2022)
- #129: Pets Teach Empathy and How to Live (1/20/2022)
- #116: Religion Is Trust in the Universe (10/7/2021)
- #115: Are We Anthropomorphizing Human Beings? (10/4/2021)
- #114: Be Quiet Sometimes (9/27/2021)
- #112: The Normality of Not Knowing (9/15/2021)
- #111: Faith, the Pandemic, and the Drowning Man (8/29/2021)
- #110: Poem: To Understand the World (8/20/2021)
- #99: Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism (5/29/2021)
- #89: Tragedy Is the Nature of Life, and That Is OK (4/13/2021)
- #88: Nature Is the Best Meditation (4/13/2021)
- #86: Nature Is Stronger than Us: The Pandemic, not the Lockdown, Is the Problem (4/5/2021)
- #74: On the Difference Between Scientific and Mythological Thinking (2/8/2021)
- #63: Doubt and Faith in Religion (11/11/2020)
- #61: We All Need to Appreciate Each Other (10/28/2020)
- #59: Why Really Big Conspiracies Cannot Exist (10/21/2020)
- #53: What Is “Left”? A Very Erratic Attempt (9/30/2020)
- #49: Nature Demands Humility (9/11/2020)
- #45: Benefit of the Doubt (8/26/2020)
- #37: Coronavirus, the Amfortas Wound? (6/23/2020)
- #27: What is Peace? (6/5/2020)
- #24: Conspiracy Thinking is Not Critical Thinking (5/18/2020)
- #18: What’s Left: Communism, Socialism, Progressivism, Social Democracy, and the Value of Dissent (4/24/2020)
- #17: Coronavirus: This is the Apocalypse (4/23/2020)
- #15: Happiness (4/14/2020)
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