Free Your Mind: New Philosophy, official release event at Clintonville Books, Wednesday July 1st, 2026, open to the public. https://clintonvillebooks.com/events/5612920260701 Imagine if Plato’s Symposium was set at a meeting of a Black secret-society, inside a boarded-up[…]
I’m excited to announce that I’m preparing for release of my new book, “Free Your Mind: New Philosophy” on July 1, 2026. I’ve been working towards this book for the last 30 years, and it[…]
Presenting “Philosophy as Activism” at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center (4C) 80 Parsons Ave 7-8:30pm Alternate Wednesdays, March-April 2025 Free and open to the public. Free will offering to benefit the 4C. March 5: “What[…]
God is good—no doubt, no question—good to the ones who stay true,who walk in His justice,who hold tight to what’s right. But me? I almost fell.I almost let go.Because I looked at the powerful,the ones[…]
One of my favorite pieces of short filmmaking is DANIELS’ music video for the Shins’ “Simple Song.” (DANIELS is a filmmaking duo made up of Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, best known for the outrageous[…]
In these days of pandemic, American democracy lies sick, burning not with fever but with fire. Every illness must come to one end or the other. Will she die, or will she get better? The[…]
Reposting in loving memory of FOW’s late great Adam Schlesinger, a casualty of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: If you know or remember alternative rockers Fountains of Wayne at all, it’s most likely for their massive[…]
Pop Culture Philosopher will be on hiatus this summer. However, I’m glad to announce that “Saints and Simulators,” my series on the intersection of religion and technology will be continuing at the Partially Examined Life[…]
Repost from 2015 Hip-hop singer Frank Ocean is well-known to march to the beat of a different drummer, and nowhere is that more apparent than in We All Try, a lovely and plaintive existential humanist[…]
This week’s Wokepedia project was near and dear to my heart. The Seattle Camera Club was a groundbreaking, interracial, gender-inclusive group of mostly Japanese-American photographers pioneering photography as fine art around the start of the[…]
