Tag: Sam Harris

On The alleged crackpottery of Bret Weinstein

.Reading time 19 minutes.

Years ago, I watched with dismay as Dr. Bret Weinstein, a professor at Evergreen State College, was chased out of his tenured position by a student led mob calling him a racist and making demands of the administration. He — and unavoidably by proxy his wife, Dr. Heather Heying — became the the prototypical victims […]

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Sam Harris – the TED interview

.Reading time 4 minutes.

The creator of the now famous TED Conference, Chris Anderson, started a podcast to ask questions that take longer than a 15-minute talk to answer and he interviewed Sam Harris who gave an early TED Talk on his 2010 book, The Moral Landscape.  Note: this is an audio only video.  I loved the interview and it […]

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Reflections on Elections

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Last night the United States held their midterm elections. They were, almost any way you want to try to look at them, a giant customer satisfaction survey about the 45th President of the United States. (He who shall not be named.) And they weren’t happy.

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