On the difference between a people and a nation 26 May 202426 May 2024 I have a new and unpaid notice on my substack here: https://johnwilkins.substack.com/p/on-the-difference-between-a-people This is me inviting hate, I guess. History Politics
Politics Rendition, lies and video tape 7 Dec 2007 I’m angry. The business with the CIA and the torture tape leaves me angry. Why oh why have the Democrats not immediately impeached Bush, Cheney, the Attorneys General involved, the Secretaries of State and Foreign Affairs, the heads of the CIA and the military, and anyone else involved in torture?… Read More
Politics Vedantic creationism 28 Dec 2007 Just to demonstrate that it is not only the Christians who have their religious fundamentalists opposing science, here’s a piece that claims that the Vedas are the source of all true scientific knowledge. OK, guys, inventing zero was cool, but what have the Vedas done for us lately (apart from… Read More
History Reminiscences of one who was there 12 Apr 2010 Early on, when I thought I would be an intellectual, a dilettante but still an intellectual, at the age of 17 or so, I read several books that I found at a second hand bookstore (my usual place of recreation). One was a little volume called Critique of Pure Tolerance,… Read More