Philosophy

Two items jumped out at me in this Washington Post report about the terrible destruction of the Surfside-Miami-area building: 1. In 2018, the condo association hired a private engineering firm to examine the building: “In an October 2018 report, engineer Frank P. Morabito wrote that he had discovered “major structural damage” … 2. Despite that, a

Episode 50 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Many rejections of objectivity assume from the outset an impossible standard for humans to achieve. Don’t do that. All audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube, Bitchute, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud. Some transcriptions are available via my media page

Young Karl Marx, full of Sturm und Drang and apocalyptic fervor, wrote poetry expressing his strongest desires. Two excerpts, the first from Feelings (1836): “Worlds I would destroy for ever, Since I can create no world,  Since my call they notice never,  Coursing dumb in magic whirl.” And the second from The Fiddler (1837): “I