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Persuasion versus Coercion
Persuasion is generally ok, coercion is not. Philanthropy can be a tricky business; the donor should try to see himself as the recipient sees him. The Komen case and a current spat with Egypt are cases in point. Continue reading
You Can’t Give Something to Nobody
If we want to stop being the world’s policeman, to whom do we turn over our badge? If we can get over our prejudice against the UN, it’s a logical choice. Continue reading
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Moral Implications for Differing Reproductive Strategies
In judging the value of an animal’s life, should we consider the reproductive strategy of its species? How about humans? Continue reading
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Tagged morality, reproductive strategies, value of a human life
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Political Evolution and the Tea Party
If civilization is like climbing a mountain, the Tea Party types are suffering from altitude sickness. Continue reading
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Tagged altitude sickness, cultural evolution, Tea Party
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Words of Wisdom from East Asia
There is a middle way for our country between world policeman and isolationism, as veteran statesman Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore suggests. Continue reading
Royal Wedding
The popular frenzy over the royal wedding shows that we share with the Brits a nostalgia for the bad old ways of monarchy, even though we both know better. Continue reading
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The Sweet Spot
Are we really stuck with only two choices, world cop versus fortress America? Is there no middle way? Of course there’s a middle way, in fact there are quite a lot of them… Continue reading
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Entropy and Life
Regard life as a principle whose prime agent is evolution, that creates complexity out of simplicity. Think of it as the polar opposite of entropy. Doesn’t this duality between entropy and life provide a sounder basis for a modern world view than the older religions? Continue reading
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Leveraging and Language
Leveraging is a term that morphed into popular usage when enough people realized the banks had mulcted them. Continue reading
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The Second American Revolution
The real sources of American strength and greatness Continue reading
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Reflections on the Nature of Human Evolution
Personal thoughts on the nature of evolution in general and human cultural evolution in particular. Continue reading
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Will the Neanderthals in the audience please raise their hands?
Of course we have some Neanderthal genes mixed up in our DNA. And we’re probably the better for it. Continue reading
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An idea for Apple
How about an application that looks backwards, and let’s us easily translate all those old documents we concocted back in the stone age times, ie, the ’80′s and early ’90′s? Continue reading
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Whats in a name?
The so-called neoconservatives have the wrong name. They are neocolonialists. Continue reading
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Under God
Wrong slogan for our country. We should stick to e pluribus unum. Continue reading
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Must We Be a Global Superpower?
Why do so many of us think that our ability to apply military force anywhere in the world represents a triumph for our country? Continue reading
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The Bad Virus
If you look at religion as a collection of viruses rather than as a unit it is easier to think of separating out the bad parts. Here we focus on the one that makes nations ready for war. Continue reading
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Humanism and Race
The humanist deplores all discrimination based on racial differences. But to go beyond that and insist that race doesn’t exist as a biological reality is to violate humanism’s preference for the scientific method. Continue reading
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Human Social Evolution
We need an explanation of how complex human societies have evolved to match the more comprehensive one we alredy have for the evolution of biological life. Here is the script for a talk I gave May 6 in Albuquerqe at an AHA conference. Continue reading
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Levels of Knowledge
Knowledge need not be information within a single human brain. It can be a body of information shared by a cooperating group of people, which evolves as it is transmitted from one generation to the next. This obvious concept refutes those who claim there is no group selection among human populations. Continue reading
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