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American Unreason
Reading Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason made me very uncomfortable. The book chronicles the history of anti-intellectualism in American culture from the Revolutionary period to the present. It’s an excellent book, well-written, carefully researched, intelligent, and witty. Jacoby, a self-avowed secularist and freethinker, is evenhanded in her treatment of what she calls “junk…
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Values Clarification
I’ve been through half a dozen values clarification sessions in my life. I never liked them. For one thing, I never thought they helped clarify anyone’s values. Typically, the group is presented with a hypothetical scenario requiring the sacrifice of one or more members to guarantee survival of those that remain. Because the scenarios are…
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Liar’s Paradox
I added a page to my web site about the Liar’s Paradox. I felt it belonged on my web site rather than my blog because it deals with logic and matters of interest to recreational mathematicians. Besides hosting my blog, my web site has a few articles about mathematical curiosities and a couple of puzzles.…
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