The Philosopher's Stone

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

Thursday, November 14, 2019

DAY ONE

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Well, I watched several hours of the hearings, and one simple fact seemed obvious, at least to me: whatever else the Democrats and their l...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

THE WHORE OF MENSA

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If there is anyone out there who has never read this classic short short story by Woody Allen, just click on  this  and enjoy. When he was...
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HOW SOON THEY FORGET

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All of us, I take it, are familiar with printed warnings, especially on milk and other dairy items, that a quart of milk or tub of cottage...
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Saturday, November 9, 2019

IS THERE A DEEPER MEANING HERE?

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Here is an idle thought I had this morning while walking in sub-freezing temperature.   In my adult lifetime there have been two full scal...
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Friday, November 8, 2019

AWRIGHT AWREADY

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Next semester, probably starting in February, I shall deliver a series of videotaped lectures on David Hume's Theory of Knowledge which ...
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HE SAID IT BETTER

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No sooner had I posted my last comment on the world than I clicked on HuffPost and read  this  much better expression of the same thought.  ...
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THE MONEY IS WORRIED

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Well, well, Mike Bloomberg suddenly emerges from seclusion to put his name into the first-deadline primary in Alabama.  Then word emerges th...
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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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