by Kurt Knecht | Sep 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
My friend Garrett sent me an article 17 months ago. I wrote a response and forgot about it. He just sent it to me in case I wanted to post it. I’m posting it. My friend Garrett recently sent me an article to get my thoughts. The article is arguing for a new...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
I will often listen to something while I’m eating breakfast. Lately, it’s been the Lotus Sutra. On the same day that there was a list of names in the daily reading for morning prayer, I heard this passage from the sutra from the parable of the burning...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
During lunch this week I watched this discussion between Wright and Greene. It’s mostly harmless stuff, and it’s a good primer for dilettantes like me who want to hear about issues in physics without doing maths. It only gets really frustrating at the end...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sitting at home instead of on a plane to Ireland today. All the gigs have been cancelled. All the international trips have been cancelled. So I hit a downward spiral and listened to Robert Wrights interview with Steven Pinker. There is hardly a thinker alive that...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Normally, Jonathan Sacks is one of my favorite thinkers, and he’s also normally pretty careful. He gets a couple things wrong in his recent essay. I’ve reprinted part of it below. “Some measure of the radicalism that is introduced into the world by...
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