Interesting piece. The writer's honesty about his ignorance and his struggles is something more than charming.

The introduction to this piece is compelling and of course disturbing. It is true that in America there has always been this double reality of the cause of freedom (starting with freedom from England) and equality (of whites) on the one hand and the on the other hand use of slaves, oppression and in...

I am in.

Such a reason is not lousy. I would hardly recommend a book I had not read.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, J. D. Vance, and Tillich would interest me. I am not keen on Wright as I have read two of his works in the past ("Nonzero" and "The Moral Animal") and am likely too familiar with his work. Smith is unknown to me, but it is of little interest. The feminist work i...

Suggesting Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.” Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” is an interesting short collection of papers. The paper which provides the title of the book was written over forty year ago during an all too typical refugee crisis in a remote corner of th...

I am suggesting: "Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong" by David Edmonds Here is a quick review: "If you are interested in the trolley problems which are a certain brand of thought experiments with a limited history this ...

I generally liked the book and found it very interesting. It is well written and contains details about fossil hunting which one does not easily find. I found the following passage deeply troubling on moral grounds: "Imagine trying to jerry-rig a Volkswagen Beetle to travel at speeds of 150 mil...