Note for “ADHD and Ethics”. Easy is boring. Love finds even the faults of its beloved endearing. Life is a disease whose cure is worse than the disease. Happy people don’t talk about hope. Outlier. When your natural habitat is at the far end of the Bell curve, you quickly…

Sounds from an old piano Float across the courtyard Down across the roofs, Over the gutters and sewers, Around the alley cats in heat, Stepping between the dogs, waiting to prowl the night. Apartments laid out one after the other As far as the mind’s eye can see As if by some…

Apatheism is a portmanteau of apathy and theism. It changes the traditional triad of theist, agnostic, and atheist into a tetrad. The traditional triad concerns itself with possible beliefs and with the possibility of knowledge of God. The theist asserts that there is a God, while the atheist contrarily gives…

[the following was originally submitted in partial fulfillment of coursework for “Modernity and Its Discontents,” for the Fall Semester, 2000, at the New School for Social Research] The creation of democracy and philosophy and the link between them has its essential precondition in the Greek vision of the world and…