Category: Mavericks
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The Wild Diversity of the Solutions to the Problem of Human Existence
How wildly diverse the concrete solutions to the problem of life that each works out for himself! There was Leon Trotsky the professional revolutionary who worshipped life-long at the altar of politics. Politics was his substitute for religion. (If religion is the opiate of the masses, revolutionary politics is the opiate of the intellectuals.) And…
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Ned Polsky, Maverick Sociologist
Reader Ray Stahl of Port Angeles, Washington, kindly mailed me a copy of Ned Polsky, Hustlers, Beats, and Others. It is a work of sociology by a maverick sociologist, academically trained, but decidedly his own man. I wasn't aware of it or him until a few days ago. The preface already has me convinced that…
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Waves and Particles
Michael G. Pratt, Queen's College, writes: Greetings from Kingston, Canada. I enjoy your blog, and have been reading it regularly for over two years now. I was reminded of you as I read this story about an unallied, iconoclastic particle physicist whose independence appears to be spawning some important insights into the nature of the…