by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 7, 2023 | • Politics, Black Lives Matter, Books, History, News & Opinion, Religion, Right Wing Lunacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/05/robert-jones-interview-book/ And Robert P. Jones latest book: The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P. Jones Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 8, 2023 | Books
1. Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. 2. Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 12, 2023 | Books, Critical Thinking
A quote I picked up in reading/listening to Medhi Hasan’s new book Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking via my Audible account (Great stuff!) It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 25, 2017 | Books, Culture, Humanities, Important People
While he has always been a recluse I am still saddened to learn we no longer have Robert M. Pirsig around.
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 9, 2017 | Books, Quotations, Memes, & Lessons From Life
I don’t know if this is from his book but I suspect it is. The quote is Miyamoto Musashi, the author of The Book of Five Rings a great book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy. Just the other week I found my old paperback copy of the book that I read traveling the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 19, 2017 | • Politics, Books, The Republicans
6 Books That Explain How the GOP Went Crazy Not long ago, another magazine asked me to recommend six books that explain something important about American politics. I chose six of my favorites that help elucidate the most important development of the last half-century...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 9, 2017 | Books, Brain Science
The first ten seconds of this video describes my memory skills almost exactly. I think I have heard of this techniques before in that it sounds like something I heard (and read) from Edward Debono and his books. I’ll give it a shot and also see what I might...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 29, 2016 | Books
One of my favorite books of all time and also one of my favorite pieces in the theatre is the musical Candide. I think the lesson it gives us about the folly of unbridled optimism is important especially so today. Candide was Right In Candide, the famous parody of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 29, 2016 | Books, Critical Thinking, Science, Science Denial
I learned via a Cami Ryan post on FaceBook that Tom Nichols who wrote the article “The Death Of Expertise” has a book coming out this winter called: “The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters” …on this BIG HUGE PROBLEM our...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 6, 2016 | • Politics, Books, Donald Trump
Jennifer Senior writes a review of a strongly prophetic book published back in 1998, Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country”. In his book Rorty writes: [M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 2, 2016 | Books, Brain Science, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
I ABSOLUTLEY HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK. I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis’s books (Moneybag, The Big Short, The New New Thing) and if you haven’t seen me quoting and citing Daniel Kahneman’s and Amos Tversky’s work from Thinking Fast & Slow...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 14, 2016 | Books
This looks like it will be interesting reading so its on my list for this winter… This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century Amazon.com: This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century...
