Monthly Archives: November 2018

I Was Politically Correct for 15 Minutes

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Abigail

I Was Politically Correct for 15 Minutes It happened like this.  I was remembering a case I know of, where a young woman, who had her whole life before her, was being forced into the sealed back of a truck.  … Continue reading →

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A Rich and Novel Treatment of an All-important Subject!

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Abigail

A Rich and Novel Treatment of an All-important Subject! Amazon Customer Review of Abigail L Rosenthal’s  A Good Look at Evil. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2018. By Jonathan Weidenbaum, Ph.D., School of Liberal Arts, Berkeley College, NYC I first received this … Continue reading →

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Economic Life

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Abigail

Economic Life  I suppose that people’s political differences turn on their differing solutions to the problem of economic life. What problem would that be? Oh, let’s say the human species has its overall metabolism: its ways of handling the inflow … Continue reading →

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The Horse Knows

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Abigail

The Horse Knows As a child, I regarded animals as people. Particularly large animals, like the big dog that followed me around when we were at Hilltop, the bungalow colony in New Jersey where my family spent summers. They looked … Continue reading →

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