The Philosopher's Stone

One of the inevitable consequences of this move from calculation to planning is a corresponding loss of simple clarity of goal. Wh...

I have several times on this blog referred to a paper I wrote some time ago and have delivered two or three places, called "The Future ...

Immediately after posting the previous blog entry, I watched last night's Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC, on my computer. It is the best c...

Herbert Marcuse published ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAN in 1964. In the Preface, he apologized for the forbiddingly abstract nature of the discussion....

Mark Povich suggests that I say something about unions, in light of the events now taking place in Madison, Wisconsin. Topographical sideba...

This, for those who are unfamilar with it, is what musicians in a band call playing a few chords or figures over and over again while waitin...

Wandering aimlessly about the internet, I came on the following story in THE ONION, the wonderful satirical on-line magazine about which I h...