The Philosopher's Stone

A Commentary on the Passing Scene by Robert Paul Wolff rwolff@afroam.umass.edu

Friday, September 12, 2014

A SHAMELESS PLEA FOR SYMPATHY

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I'm not sure you youngsters know just how hard it is for me to keep writing light, amusing things on this blog while the world aroun...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

SOME THOUGHTS ON 9/11

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America's attention has been focused on ISIS for some time now, culminating in the address by President Obama to the nation concerni...
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A RESPONSE TO TONY COUTURE

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Pretty clearly Tony Couture's involvement with podcasting and such like things is way, way beyond mine.  I would hate to think that I wa...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

THANK YOU ALL

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Thank you all, Tony Couture, Jim Westrich, and Jerry Fresia, for your advice on  how to proceed in my Marx course.  Tony, my problem with yo...
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HUM A FEW BARS AND I'LL FAKE IT

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One of my very favorite movies is the 1984 Milos Forman version of the 1979 Peter Shaffer play Amadeus [which Wikipedia tells me was in...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

SHEER FUN

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While I was agitating myself about what I should blog about today, I happened in Brian Leiter's blog on a link to "The Harshest Phi...
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Monday, September 8, 2014

THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS

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I do not read many serious novels.  I don't suppose I have read more than half a dozen in the past twenty years, not counting the re-rea...
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Robert Paul Wolff
As I observed in one of my books, in politics I am an anarchist, in religion I am an atheist, and in economics I am a Marxist. I am also, rather more importantly, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a violist.
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