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In response to “Read what’s on your mind?” by Jack Batson published in the Daily Republic on Jan. 18, I ask, what’s IN your mind/soul? The columnist may be erudite but he misses or misinterprets some messages. Yes, we have many blind spots as humans. Most conservatives are no
Why Americans Take All Riots In The U.S. Capitol City As A Desecration January 22, 2021 Every nation holds some things sacred. America is often said to be a nation based on an idea. Indeed, it’s true that the United States was founded on principles of limited government and ordered liberty that remain with us today. As important as those national ideas are, however, it is also true that America has become a distinct nation since the Revolutionary War. Just as the nations of the Old World did across the centuries, so to with time have we developed sacred things and places.
Caste: America’s deep problem By Frank Robinson on January 13, 2021 at 10:17 PM Isabel Wilkerson’s book The Warmth of Other Suns, about Blacks leaving the Jim Crow South, was inspiring. Her new book Caste is dispiriting. Wilkerson defines caste as a cognitive system situating people in a social hierarchy, governing who’s on top and what others are deemed allowed to do. Captured in that old locution about Blacks “knowing their place.” She brackets America with the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany. Seeing this as the skeleton underlying America’s social architectur...
“What the hell is wrong with those people?” If the events of recent weeks (or years) have you asking yourself that, the answer is: not very much. They simply suffer from a small but crucial error in the way their brains create models of the world around them. 1 a 2014 book I reread this weekend. The insights of author Will Storr are applicable not only to the current political mayhem but to traders and investors. Indeed, anyone who makes important decisions based on their subjective understandings of the universe stands to learn something about themselves and their decision-maki...
Can you love multiple partners? By Frank Robinson on December 17, 2020 at 4:37 PM Having multiple sex partners is common enough. But what about love? This was a question discussed at a social gathering; an intellectual group. Earlier we’d discussed whether love is a “choice.” The consensus was pretty much in the negative; that it’s just something that happens, outside of one’s control. Well, we do make choices. But the real issue is how we make them. A powerful metaphor is Jonathan Haidt’s in his book The Righteous Mind — the conscious mind as the rider on an elephant, wh...