Enlightenment must include detours, challenging basic assumptions, and willingness to change when confronted with evidence.
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Read MoreWhat moral responsibilities, if any, do those of us in wealthy countries have to accept new immigrants from less-developed nations?
Read MoreAssholes of America have found their ideal candidate.
He embodies their deepest-rooted fears. He plays to their crazed phobias and nuttiest conspiracy theories. He exploits their frantic desperation for simple answers to complex problems. He’s the grotesque political pathogen of mass ignorance. Like them, he’s every bit as mean, as crude, as juvenile, as xenophobic, and overtly as sexist and as racist as they are — only worse.
Read MoreRemember when the Republican Party used to be respectable and rational? Remember when the GOP used to nominate presidential candidates who members of both parties could admire and look up to, who were both intelligent and statesmanlike, leaders who inspired the best in all of us, rather than dividing the country and extracting the very worst fears in their supporters?
Last year, I had the honor of emceeing the induction of Jack McClelland into the Poker Hall of Fame
Read MoreAll poker players owe a debt of gratitude to Jack McClelland, who has dedicated much of his life to the game he loves.
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