“They will never have dominion over the people of Gaza. We will not abandon Gaza! We will not abandon Gaza! ” –  President Mohammad Morsi of Egypt, in 2012, during the Israeli bombing of Gaza If we want to condemn this world, in which the innocent are massacred before our eyes, we are obliged to […]

Spoiler: No.  A Youtuber I subscribe to, Essential Salts, recently did a collaborative episode with the host of another channel, Gnostic Informer, discussing their various areas of overlapping interests. It was a good example of how early career, but potentially top tier, public intellectuals can collaborate to produce work that is ultimately mediocre.  This isn’t […]

It took 4 hours or so.

In an interview from November last year, Errol Musk, while discussing his relationship with his wife, Elon’s mum, Maye Musk, the tech magnates father note that her parents, who apparently never liked him or whatever. Here’s the transcript, starting at 52:51 in the video linked to above.   Just in case so far that wasn’t a […]

A year ago today the world lost a great teacher with a great mind.  It’s been a year since the death of Dr Michael Sugrue. Sugrue was an exceptional thinker and teacher, who experienced an unexpected celebrity in his final years, while undergoing treatment for the prostate cancer that would, on this day one year […]