Monthly Archives: November 2020

How to Be Modern

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Abigail

How to Be Modern I’ve never understood why people wanted to be modern in the first place.  Okay, the dentistry is an improvement.  I’ll give you that. On the other hand, Victorian people (as in the novels of Dickens) seemed … Continue reading →

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Miracle Stories

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Abigail

Miracle Stories We are just back from another of our week-long stays in Riverside, California.  We go there periodically to get treatments only available from the neuropathy clinic at Loma Linda Hospital. Here’s how we “happened” to learn of this … Continue reading →

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Book Matters

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Abigail

Book Matters Blaming the Jews: Politics and Delusion By Bernard Harrison It’s not common that you see someone with a high degree of philosophic training actually doing something helpful with it.  This book, by a well-regarded British philosopher, sheds a … Continue reading →

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How Hegel Helps

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Abigail

How Hegel Helps A British analytic philosopher friend read my “Obit” column of last week and noticed that I’d spent some of my professional time with G. W. F. Hegel, the nineteenth-century German philosopher.  He emailed to ask what on … Continue reading →

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