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- What Is a Philosopher? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/what-is-a-philosopher/?hp= 15 comments
- All-Nighters: Miles to Go http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/miles-to-go/ 14 comments
- Being fat is bad for your brain http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/brain-damage/?ref=global-home 27 comments
- In Sleepless Nights, a Hope for Treating Depression http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/in-sleepless-nights-a-hope-for-treating-depression/ 7 comments
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- The Art of Being Still http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/the-art-of-being-still/?hp= 3 comments philosophy
- Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/why-our-children-dont-think-there-are-moral-facts/ 233 comments philosophy
- The Perils of Being A Black Philosopher http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/the-perils-of-being-a-black-philosopher/ 12 comments philosophy
- The NYT Stone Editorial for 3/9/16 Googling is Believing: Trumping the Informed Citizen http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/googling-is-believing-trumping-the-informed-citizen/ 7 comments philosophy
- The Irrationality of Natural Life Sentences http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/the-irrationality-of-natural-life-sentences/?_r=0 47 comments philosophy
- Philosopher John Corvino on "Gay Rights and the Race Analogy" [NYT 'The Stone' blog] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/gay-rights-and-the-race-analogy/?_r=0&pagewanted=all 194 comments philosophy
- Why Life is Absurd http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/why-life-is-absurd/?hp&action=click&pgtype=homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&wt.nav=c-column-top-span-region 474 comments philosophy
- The Wisdom of the Exile http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/the-wisdom-of-the-exile/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 5 comments philosophy
- Discrimination is Un-Christian, Too http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/discrimination-is-un-christian-too/?hp&action=click&pgtype=homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&wt.nav=c-column-top-span-region 6 comments politics
- How Coffee Fueled the [American] Civil War http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/how-coffee-fueled-the-civil-war/ 8 comments history
- Bridging the Analytic/Continental Divide - what are they and how do they differ? [Gary Gutting at NYT's 'The Stone'] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/bridging-the-analytic-continental-divide/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1& 14 comments philosophy
- Deconstructing God http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/deconstructing-god/ 26 comments philosophy
- Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/student-debt-and-the-crushing-of-the-american-dream/ 43 comments politics
- On Borges, Particles and the Paradox of the Perceived http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/borges-and-the-paradox-of-the-seenk/ 6 comments philosophy
- Burgers, Fries, and Lies: A Five Guys franchisee complains about ObamaCare but doesn't understand the implications http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/burgers-fries-and-lies/?hp 543 comments politics
- If the Republican Party were a profit-seeking corporation, the current management would be tossed. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/can-republicans-change-their-spots/?smid=tw-share 3 comments politics
- "Seven times as many poor children are obese as those who are underweight, an indication that government aid in the form of food stamps, now officially called SNAP, does a good job of addressing hunger but encourages the consumption of unhealthy calories." http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/stop-subsidizing-obesity/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121226 437 comments politics
- An armed society is the opposite of a civil society. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/the-freedom-of-an-armed-society/ 3 comments politics
- Lyndon Johnson brought the poverty level down to 11 percent from 20. Ronald Reagan began dismantling the safety net, and current level is close to 16 percent. “There was a time in this country, when food stamps had practically eliminated hunger; then the big cuts happened.” http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/hunger-in-plain-sight/ 276 comments politics
- [deleted by user] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/?hp 13 comments culturalstudies
- Finally someone batting for the virtues of an inefficient life... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/ 89 comments philosophy
- Reading analytic philosophy for pleasure? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/is-philosophy-literature/ 40 comments philosophy
- Philosophy's Western Bias - NYTimes.com http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/philosophys-western-bias/ 14 comments india
- "We interrupt reality to bring you Arizona..." http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/total-eclipse/?hp 588 comments politics
- Zombie Borders - The former border between East and West Germany is older and more complicated than you think. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/zombie-borders/ 9 comments history
- Rick Perry literally Prayed for Rain to solve the Texas drought -- to no avail http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/rick-perrys-unanswered-prayers/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Wow, I had no idea that Thomas Kuhn was such a jerk http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/the-ashtray-the-ultimatum-part-1/&a=a 3 comments philosophy
- This Is Your Brain on Metaphors - NYTimes.com http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/this-is-your-brain-on-metaphors/ 3 comments science
- Fighting Bullying with Babies - 88% decrease in [bullying] vs. 9% in control group http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/fighting-bullying-with-babies/?hp 3 comments reddit.com
- Are you one of the 46 million Americans without health insurance? Well, you may not have that luxury for much longer. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/obamacare-passes-its-first-test/?hp 5 comments politics
- NY Times opinion piece claims is is not right to expect religion to provide proof for it's claims. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/mystery-and-evidence/?hp 21 comments reddit.com
- Stanley Fish: If a bad guy is a member of a group you hate, blame it it on the group. If a bad guy is a member of your group, blame it on the individual. It happened with Oklahoma city, and it is happening in New York. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/weve-seen-this-movie-before 79 comments politics
- Plato’s Pop Culture Problem, and Ours http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/platos-pop-culture-problem-and-ours/?hp 3 comments philosophy
- It became known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect — our incompetence masks our ability to recognize our incompetence. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/?hp 171 comments science
- Fantastic article on the psychology of the Tea Party: "In truth, there is nothing that the Tea Party movement wants; terrifyingly, it wants nothing." http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/the-very-angry-tea-party/ 6 comments politics
- But if religion and science are not thought of as rival candidates for the title “Ultimate Arbiter,” they can be examined, in more or less evolutionary terms, as highly developed, successful and different...ways of coping with the situations and challenges human existence presents. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/must-there-be-a-bottom-line/?em 3 comments reddit.com