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Thursday, 9 October 2025

Bad as it is, Trump's deal is a good deal. Here's why

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By Martin Cohen W hat should be made of the new plan for Gaza? As the London Times noted of it: “There is no timeline for the exit of Israe...
Monday, 22 September 2025

What Is It to Be Us?

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By Keith Tidman What Is It to Be Us? Pi departs from its usual prose format to offer a poem that probes the oldest philosophical question of...
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Monday, 1 September 2025

Maybe we Need to Learn how to Trust Machines that are Smarter than Us

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By Martin Cohen I F ANYONE BUILDS IT EVERYONE DIES That’s the title of a new mass market paperback by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Th...
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Monday, 11 August 2025

Postmodernism Collides With the ‘Theory of Everything’

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By Keith Tidman   The term  postmodernism  entered the lexicon in the second half of the twentieth century, critical of modernity and of not...
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Monday, 30 June 2025

The Blind Philosophers and the Elephant: A Parable About Reality

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Illustration by Pamela Zagarenski By Keith Tidman T he parable of The Blind Men and the Elephant originated on the Indian subcontinent aroun...
Monday, 9 June 2025

The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience

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  By Martin Cohen   E yes are, indeed, on Gaza, although many in Israel and the US still seem to be both oblivious and unashamed. This week,...
Monday, 19 May 2025

Hog-Tied Truth

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Truth coming out of the Well (1898) by E. Debat-Ponsan; by Andrew Porter H uman affairs are tricky, and perhaps for this reason it is espec...
Monday, 28 April 2025

Trump-Harris 2024 The figures that just don’t add up

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Three reasons to think that the 2024 US election was stolen     By Martin Cohe n O KAY, EVERYONE KNOWS that there were big surprises in the ...
Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Was Alvy Right? Does the Universe’s Fate Affect Purpose?

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  By Keith Tidman I n the 1977 movie “Annie Hall,” Woody Allen played the role of a fictional protagonist Alvy Singer, who iconically portra...
Monday, 10 March 2025

The Omnipotence Paradox

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Averroes was the first philosopher to address the omnipotence paradox in the 12th century. By Keith Tidman People of faith, in defining th...
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Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Can Free Will Exist in an Otherwise Deterministic World?

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By Keith Tidman I t’s probably fair to say that most people believe free will and determinism cannot exist side by side. The notion is count...
Monday, 30 December 2024

What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence?

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By Keith Tidman For many years now people have been sounding the clarion call of Artificial Intelligence, buying into its everyday promise i...
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