Robin Koerner
How the "Unvaccinated" Got It Right
... Using Only the Information Available at the Time Scott Adams is the creator of the famous cartoon strip, Dilbert. It is a strip whose...
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Robin Koerner
- Jan 29
- 8 min
When Compliance Becomes Complicity ...
... And the Answer to (Almost) All of Our Problems With the exception of what remains of the Silent Generation (born before 1946),...
Robin Koerner
- Jan 29
- 11 min
Nothing to Hide? Your Government Will Make Something Up.
A couple of years ago, I returned to my home city of Seattle from the UK, where I had been teaching and visiting family. As I was about...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 19, 2022
- 7 min
Ideological Possession: Diagnosis and Prevention of the Next Pandemic
Recent years have been dominated by a deadly viral disease. Older forms of the disease have always been present in the population at...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 16, 2022
- 8 min
China Is Preparing for War. Taiwan May Have Only One Way To Stop It.
The Chinese People Are Readied for War (Whether They Know It or Not) Each year, I have the pleasure of interviewing hundreds of...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 12, 2022
- 11 min
Lockdown Supporters Are Damned by Their Own Words
Fourteen years ago, I attended an event at an embassy in Manhattan, where I used to live. Having listened to a panel of diplomats discuss...
Robin Koerner
- Sep 17, 2022
- 8 min
What to Do about Privilege: a Royal Standard
Said France’s president Macron to the British people on the occasion of the passing of their Queen, “To you, she was your Queen. To us,...
Robin Koerner
- Jul 5, 2022
- 9 min
Pro-Choice. Pro-Rights. Pro-Law. Pro-SCOTUS
I am not a lawyer; I am not a woman; but I am most definitely an American. I will fight for the right of women to have safe and legal...
Robin Koerner
- Apr 21, 2022
- 9 min
A 25-Year Sabbatical
The 1990s: “I Need Guns. Lots of Guns” But Go Easy on the Books It was at the very end of my second year at Cambridge that I visited its...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 28, 2022
- 3 min
We've Done This Too
During these horrifically sad days, like so many others around the world, I have been listening to the unfolding of the events in...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 16, 2022
- 6 min
Beyond Censorship: Twitter Demanded that I Lie
This is the most censorious time of my life. Considering how old I am, that’s saying something – but not anything that will surprise...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 10, 2022
- 21 min
I Know What Makes You You
What is a person? Or to put the question more personally, what are you? I don’t mean “what are you physically?” No one is referring to...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 8, 2022
- 10 min
The Politics of Place: Why Proximity Makes Progressives
Across cultures and times, areas of higher population density have been associated with more culturally progressive attitudes. Consider...
Robin Koerner
- Jan 28, 2022
- 16 min
How to Get Compensated Every Time a Corporation Lets You Down
Just Not Good Enough We have all had the experience, time after time, of being let down by some large corporation whose services or...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 18, 2021
- 10 min
Don’t Die with the Music Still Inside You (in Memory of my Late Dad)
Two months ago, I flew to my native England to deal with the passing of my father. For years, his now-widow had been by his side to help...
Robin Koerner
- Sep 9, 2021
- 2 min
Only my disease status - NOT my vaccine status - can affect you.
An unvaccinated person who doesn't have COVID puts others at risk exactly as much as a vaccinated one - NO RISK AT ALL. My having a...
Robin Koerner
- Jun 28, 2021
- 0 min
Robin Koerner
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
Think of Others When You’re Offered that Vaccine
If you have a safe and convenient means of protecting yourself from danger that does not hurt others in the short-run or long-run, take...
Robin Koerner
- Mar 25, 2021
- 4 min
Focusing on What Divides Us Divides Us
Love Doesn't Wait On Understanding Love doesn’t have to understand its object fully. Indeed, it never can. As for love, so for empathy...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
Your Success Is All Luck - But You Can Make Luck
“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By...
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