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Nov 232012

These reflections by Jonathan Rauch, in my view, express the crucial point:

–Paul

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Authors

Paul Shields teaches computer science at Bard College at Simon's Rock
Phil Shields teaches philosophy at Beloit College
Nathan Shields recently finished his doctorate in composition at Julliard

Selected

In Memoriam, Milton Babbitt
Wittgenstein on Silence
Logical Positivism
Schoenberg in Vienna
Communities of Choice
Macbeth's Witches
Thucydides and Plato
Leszek Kolakowski 1927-2009
Out West

Philosophy

Music

Wagner and the Jews
Nikolay Khozyainov
Music and the Romantic Image of Nature
So you want to write a fugue?
Wrong Concerto
Kreutzer Sonata
In Memoriam, Milton Babbitt
Goldman on Wagner
George Steiner
Tenebrae
Actus Tragicus
Count Basie Remembers
the Blues
Eros and Death in
Verdi’s Otello
Alkan/Beethoven
Haochen Zhang
String Octet
Reasoning about Music
Van Cliburn
Chopin, Fantasie, Op. 49
Dance of the Hours
Capriccio
Josquin and Our Time
Schoenberg in Vienna
Afternoon Music

Poetry

The Last European
From the Prelude
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
From East Coker
An Essay on Criticism
His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell
Intimations of Immortality
From The Book of Time
The Second Coming
Where My Books go
The First Elegy
When You are Old
The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Photo Albums

New Mexico 2010
Out West
Winter 2009
Christmas 2008
Lee, MA
Adirondacks

Economics

Reversing Desertification
Gender Gap
Charles Murray
Walter Russell Mead
Lawrence Lessig
Dalrymple on Galbraith
Cap and Trade
Daniel Hannan
Milton Friedman
GRE Scores by Discipline
Climate Change Poll
The Gods of the Copybook Headings

Science

Reversing Desertification
The Chatting Protein
The Essence of Science in 63 Seconds
Neutrinos
Jonathan Haidt
Liquid Thorium
Programmed for Love
Logical Positivism
Sherry Turkle
Thorium Reactors
Steve McIntyre
Scientific Integrity
Polywell Fusion
Recent Temperature Trends
The Yamal Deconstruction
Cap and Trade
Freeman Dyson
American Exceptionalism
New Shades of Green?
Constructive Set Theory
Scientists Behaving Badly
A Response to the Climate Poll
Climate Change Poll
Raymond Smullyan
Koutsoyiannis et al 2008

Mathematics and Logic

Charles S. Peirce on the
Logic of Number
Peirce’s Definitions of Continuity
Euler’s Identity
Benjamin Peirce
Constructive Set Theory
Fields Arranged by Purity
Raymond Smullyan

Religion

Wagner and the Jews
Charles Murray
Walter Russell Mead
Jonathan Haidt
Rebecca Goldstein
Philip L. Barlow
Logical Positivism
Dalrymple on Galbraith
Actus Tragicus
Reasoning about Music
Gobekli Tepe
The Regensburg Address
Robert L. Horn
Macbeth’s Witches
Wittgenstein on Silence

Miscellaneous

Phil at Work
Diversity Boycott
Wake Up, Sheeple!
Two Ocean Pass
Obstruction
Denis Dutton 1944-2010
Africa is Big
Golf Dreams
Facebook
The Divinity of Dogs
Gobekli Tepe
Gran Torino
Paul Potts
Eureka
Tony Hillerman 1925-2008

Pages

Climate Change Poll
The Fisher Forest

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