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Role Playing or Recreating
In a recent Op-Ed (NYT, January 27), David Brooks asks us to address a fundamental dichotomy in how to think about life. His column led to a rash of good letters a few days later. Whatever one thinks … more →
Reconsiderations
Role Playing or Recreating
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R. D. Gastil wrote 10 months ago: In a recent Op-Ed (NYT, January 27), David Brooks asks us to address a fundamental dichotomy in how … more →
Basic Principles for Foreign and Military Policy
R. D. Gastil wrote 10 months ago: President Obama’s inaugeral address presented a cogent summary of how the United States should … more →
A New Era
R. D. Gastil wrote 10 months ago: “a new era of responsibility” … more →
Rational Models and Social Science Failures
R. D. Gastil wrote 10 months ago: Discussions of the economic collapse of recent months and the apparent inability of economists to pr … more →
Scientific Self-Control
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R. D. Gastil wrote 1 year ago: In a recent Op-Ed in the New York Times (September 12), Brian Greene reassured us that the experimen … more →
The "New" Ism
R. D. Gastil wrote 1 year ago: When I was chasing my PhD in the 1950s, I chose nationalism as an area of concentration. In those da … more →
Meaning and Time
R. D. Gastil wrote 1 year ago: Looking through a set of space photographs, with back-dated times of estimated existence set at anyt … more →
Making Nuclear Weapon Sense
R. D. Gastil wrote 1 year ago: It was heartening to read in the New York Times the appreciation of the recent proposals of Shultz, … more →
Torture and Irresponsibility
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R. D. Gastil wrote 1 year ago: The end result of the Abu Ghraib scandal was the singling out for punishment a few low level America … more →
Sex Discrimination in Another Guise
R. D. Gastil wrote 1 year ago: The revealing of Governor Spitzer’s use of the services of prostitutes led to a barrage of rep … more →
