GOOD NEWS TUESDAY

Democrats took control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time in 15 years, and the election was not even close. Once again, we see the enormous political impact of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe V Wade. That Supreme Court decision negatively affected half of all the people in the United States as well as those in the other half  who actually care about their wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters.  We may well be witnessing the death of a modern Republican Party.

Meanwhile, I am delighted that  the case brought by Dist. Atty. Bragg will not have its next court date until December. Long before that time, Trump will be indicted in Georgia and at least once by the Atty. Gen. of the United States and maybe twice. Trump's out-of-control reaction to the events yesterday raise at least the possibility that he will eventually be sanctioned by the judge.

But in my mind, all this fades into insignificance when compared with my preparations for my next lecture on Game Theory.  I am teaching by zoom seven or eight UNC philosophy students and although the sessions are being recorded, I do not know whether there is any way to make them available to a wider audience. No matter. The pleasure I derive from clarifying these complex logical and mathematical issues in my mind and explaining them to the students is very great.

Meanwhile, a few moments ago, I replied to a philosopher in Mumbai, India who has written a futuristic novel called 2084, parts of which are inspired by my writings. When I was a boy, I read with great pleasure a book by Charles Erskine Scott Wood called Heavenly Discourses.  Wood, a late 19th century early 20th centuryAmerican radical, imagines a heaven in which Plato and Rousseau and Hobbes and Mill and Aquinas and others meet and debate the great issues.  The Internet has provided an earthly analog for lesser lights like myself.