Apologies for appropriating the title of one of Carl Jung’s works, but it just seems an appropriate label for this post. I had a dream recently in which my daughter was just a young girl again going to elementary school. She was involved in some kind of basketball tournament, and
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Politics and its Discontents: The Cost of Profound Ignorance
At the risk of sounding arrogant, I have to admit that the profoundly ignorant deeply distress me, especially those who revel in that ignorance, wear it as a faux badge of independent critical thinking, and refuse to entertain the possibility of error. Take, for example, climate-change deniers. Despite the overwhelming
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