Going Alone

September 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You and I never got around to discussing the concept of nihilism; the idea that life is essentially devoid of

September 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My daughter had a fine adventure this past weekend. There was excitement, and fun, and a bit of danger. I could

September 8, 2019 Dear Eric, I think I know why people don't want to die. It's because they know there's nothing for us after life is done.

September 7, 2019 Dear Eric, I'd remain with my family and people always, if I didn't know there is - and is not - more. So, I go to see the

September 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I’m typing you this note with some difficulty from a tent in the deep desert. There's just one-bar of...

September 5, 2019 Dear Eric, An important principle of The Good Life is something I call The Risk of Avoiding Risk. The idea is that there

September 4, 2019 Dear Eric, What is the end pursuit of virtue? And for that matter what is virtue? I define virtue as the improvement of

September 3, 2019 Dear Eric, Can you imagine how much less my confidence now, than when we once conferred together on so many subjects of

September 2, 2019 Dear Eric, How much vacuum - if any - is necessary to discover free will? How much of the "substrate" of the universe

September 1, 2019 Dear Eric, I'm currently reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamozov. It's a big book. A very big book! I'm now

August 31, 2019 Eric, You're not going to believe this... But I've become one of the faithful. Yup. It happened yesterday, about an hour

August 26, 2019 Dear Eric, My suspicion that free will is an illusion is a curious specimen. You know how I don't like resting my hat on i

August 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Yesterday was Saturday. And the pool where I live - a very nice pool, more like a resort, really - was lively w

August 24, 2019 Dear Eric, I was away for a few days this week moving. My family and I have at last truly, finally arrived in America.

August 18, 2019 Dear Eric, There’s no good reason to imagine we’re anything but atoms and molecules, and compounds and organs, and muscles

August 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I made something since you became done. We never once spoke of this thing during our talks at college, as I think

August 16, 2019 Dear Eric, I'm a little intimidated at the idea of going alone without social media. So far, living untethered from the mo

August 15, 2019 Dear Eric, I think I've made up my mind regarding free will... I don't think we have it. I think free will is an illusion

August 14, 2019 Eric, I watched an interesting video yesterday which featured a man named Dave Wamock who was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Ge

August 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I've gone quiet on social media... I know you don't know what that is - social media. It's the way people keep in