Four Wine Recommendations for Your Thanksgiving

It’s five o’clock on November 19th in my neck of the woods, and it’s not too late to order wine for the big dinner—what many Europeans, with a wink…

Nov 20 • 

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October 2025

The Old Man and the Presidency

He had won. Barely.

Oct 21 • 

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In Mendel’s Garden with John Locke

Was metaphor the first experiment?

Oct 15 • 

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Project for Two Americas: An Email Exchange

It is June 2035 and twelve days into the 60-day public comment window on “Project for Two Americas”—a two-track blueprint being negotiated by the U.S.

Oct 9 • 

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I Went to See Cancer Cells and Found Kant and Locke Debating

As on many days in my time as a science journalist, I found myself yesterday afternoon in a glass-walled laboratory at MIT, where the hum of sequencers…

Oct 2 • 

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September 2025

Kant, Kirk, and the Cross: The Oxford Union Debates Christian Nationalism

The Oxford Union Debate: “This House Believes Christian Nationalism Does Not Exist”

Sep 26 • 

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The Philosophy of Family Estrangement

Scene: Outside the Atheneum at Caltech University, mid autumn.

Sep 16 • 

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August 2025

The Gospel According to St. Tom

Eli:I read a headline this morning—some congressman in Texas wants to “reconsider the doctrine of separation of church and state.” He says it’s “not in…

Aug 30 • 

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When Bacon Meets Plato

Some friendships begin with random circumstance, others with similar temperament. I once met a friend who had posted in the classifieds that he was…

Aug 24 • 

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Three Weeks in San Francisco

He props himself up on one elbow.“ You know, you have a habit of interrupting me just when I’m about to sound profound.” She traces a line along his…

Aug 10 • 

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Nightly Under Night's Underside . . .

Nightly under night’s underside

Aug 3 • 

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July 2025

Journal Entry Fourteen Sixty Four Dash O Five Six

Setting: A narrow path winding up into golden hills above San Jose speckled with late-summer scrub.

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