What You Think You Know Is a Story You’ve Never Questioned: A Review of On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
[On Certainty — Ludwig Wittgenstein | Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble*] Knowledge has…
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach: The God You Built From the Best Parts of Yourself
A review of Feuerbach’s 1841 argument that God is the outward projection of human nature — and what that costs us. Read at the Heritage Diner blog.
The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers — The Last Wall Science Hasn’t Scaled
A review of David Chalmers’ landmark 1996 book The Conscious Mind, and why the hard problem of consciousness matters more in the age of AI than ever before.
Atom by Lawrence Krauss — You Are Made of Dead Stars, and That Should Change Everything
A review of Lawrence Krauss’s Atom — the biography of an oxygen atom from the Big Bang to life on Earth, and what it means that science, not religion, tells us who we are.
Filson vs. Carhartt vs. Schott: The American Outerwear Trinity and What Each One Actually Does Best
Three American outerwear brands built a century ago for men who needed gear that worked. Here’s what the tin cloth jacket, the Detroit jacket, and the Perfecto each actually do — and which one belongs in your closet.
The Hudson Valley in Reverse: Why You Should Start in Beacon and Work Your Way South
Everyone drives north from the city. Start at Dia:Beacon and eat your way back south through Cold Spring, Rhinebeck, and Storm King to see the valley the right way.
