Ambiguous media whining about "polarization" or "partisan tribalism" redirects attention away from the real cause of modern U.S. division: violent right wing extremism.

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Round my neck of the woods, we are usually quite committed to materialist explanations for all of human cognition, up to and including consciousness.  I share the commitment.  This is quite the opposite of believing in magic.  If you believe that cognitive phenomena are fully explicable, in principle, from material causes, then you have to […]

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The following is by McKenna Horsley of the Kentucky Lantern, republished in full under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 because this discourse is driving me fucking nuts. A lot of people are a...

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