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The Love of One's Own and the Importance of Place. If you are a current subscriber, log in here. Stratfor - the leader in Geopolitical Analysis: Political Economic Military Our readers get: Situational Awareness - real-time reports of key events - no fluff. Analysis - what events really mean, without ideology or spin. Forecasts - rigorous predictions of what will happen next. We will never sell or share your information. Annual Forecast 2008: Beyond the Jihadist War -- Middle East. Re-Examining the Arab Spring. Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill - Biography. YourMorals.org. Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks. An intellectual pestilence is upon us. Shop shelves groan with books purporting to explain, through snazzy brain-imaging studies, not only how thoughts and emotions function, but how politics and religion work, and what the correct answers are to age-old philosophical controversies.

The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were never designed to answer. This is the plague of neuroscientism – aka neurobabble, neurobollocks, or neurotrash – and it’s everywhere. In my book-strewn lodgings, one literally trips over volumes promising that “the deepest mysteries of what makes us who we are are gradually being unravelled” by neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Happily, a new branch of the neuroscienceexplains everything genre may be created at any time by the simple expedient of adding the prefix “neuro” to whatever you are talking about.

Shades of grey So, instead, here is a recipe for writing a hit popular brain book. Contemplative Political Philosophy (Washington and Lee Univ.) The Life and Works of Josef Pieper Documentary. Jon Haidt's Home Page. Contemplative Political Philosophy. A course about nothing.