Two big stories in the news today are about academics: Ward Churchill, a professor being fired from the University of Colorado for what he said about the 9/11 bombings, and Norman Finkelstein, a professor at DePaul being denied tenure for what he has written about Israel. Both universities say they are firing these guys for… Continue reading

I read recently (here) that Bush has been consulting with ministers, theologians, historians, and philosophers (who???) in an attempt to figure out why everyone hates him. Apparently he doesn’t like the answers one can find in any newspaper. Anyway, he finally found someone who gives him the answers he likes: Continue reading

It seems like we might distinguish between two ways of pursuing wisdom (meaning: metaphysics and values). We might pursue wisdom as a society/culture/species, which would be something like a scientific approach to the questions “What is real?” and “What is valuable?” Or we might pursue those same questions as individuals: “What do I take to… Continue reading