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The Love of One's Own and the Importance of Place. If you are a current subscriber, log in here.

The Love of One's Own and the Importance of Place

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. Annual Forecast 2008: Beyond the Jihadist War. 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.

Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks

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. 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.