Dirty Boots: Bertrand Russell, Alabama Politics, and Some Hope for November

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. Near the end of his “Introduction” in A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell made this assertion: “Social cohesion is a necessity, and mankind has never yet succeeded in enforcing cohesion by merely rational arguments.” Case and point: the state of Alabama, where good ideas about getting along with each other are replaced by an ever-evolving, us-and-them verbiage that undermines progress. As a person… Read more Dirty Boots: Bertrand Russell, Alabama Politics, and Some Hope for November →