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    A 25-Year Sabbatical
    Robin Koerner
    • Apr 22
    • 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...
    We've Done This Too
    Robin Koerner
    • Mar 1
    • 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...
    Beyond Censorship: Twitter Demanded that I Lie
    Robin Koerner
    • Feb 17
    • 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...
    I Know What Makes You You
    Robin Koerner
    • Feb 10
    • 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...
    The Politics of Place: Why Proximity Makes Progressives
    Robin Koerner
    • Feb 9
    • 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...
    How to Get Compensated Every Time a Corporation Lets You Down
    Robin Koerner
    • Jan 28
    • 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...
    Don’t Die with the Music Still Inside You (in Memory of my Late Dad)
    Robin Koerner
    • Dec 19, 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...
    Only my disease status - NOT my vaccine status - can affect you.
    Robin Koerner
    • Sep 10, 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...
    Free-thinking is infectious. So stay masked-up!
    Robin Koerner
    • Jun 28, 2021
    • 0 min

    Free-thinking is infectious. So stay masked-up!

    Think of Others When You’re Offered that Vaccine
    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...
    Focusing on What Divides Us Divides Us
    Robin Koerner
    • Mar 26, 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...
    Your Success Is All Luck - But You Can Make Luck
    Robin Koerner
    • Feb 24, 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...
    The Power of Refusal (and a Heuristic for Life)
    Robin Koerner
    • Feb 16, 2021
    • 7 min

    The Power of Refusal (and a Heuristic for Life)

    “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” - Somerset Maugham This quotation...
    Having & Happiness; Desire & Difference: Reasons of the Heart (3 of 3)
    Robin Koerner
    • Jan 27, 2021
    • 6 min

    Having & Happiness; Desire & Difference: Reasons of the Heart (3 of 3)

    We tend to think of our love for a person like anything else – as something we either have or don’t have. But I think the emotional...
    The Common Objects of Our Love – Biden’s Inauguration Speech
    Robin Koerner
    • Jan 22, 2021
    • 5 min

    The Common Objects of Our Love – Biden’s Inauguration Speech

    I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am, however, an American – a status I spent 12 years of my life and tens of thousands of...
    Attachment and Addiction - Reasons of the Heart (2 of 3)
    Robin Koerner
    • Jan 6, 2021
    • 5 min

    Attachment and Addiction - Reasons of the Heart (2 of 3)

    Love is addictive – neurochemically speaking. So it makes sense that the loss of a love relationship can feel utterly unbearable – like...
    Love and Loss - Reasons of the Heart (1 of 3)
    Robin Koerner
    • Dec 31, 2020
    • 3 min

    Love and Loss - Reasons of the Heart (1 of 3)

    One of the quotes that I have returned to more than most is from the C17 French mathematician, Blaise Pascal, about something that in...
    COVID-19: Bad Math = Bad Morality
    Robin Koerner
    • Dec 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    COVID-19: Bad Math = Bad Morality

    From a peer-reviewed paper by John P. A. Ioannidis, a Stanford University professor who is highly regarded in evidence-based medicine,...
    Half of Politics Is the Refusal to Be Imposed Upon
    Robin Koerner
    • Nov 10, 2020
    • 5 min

    Half of Politics Is the Refusal to Be Imposed Upon

    One of the most interesting aspects of political psychology concerns the gap between the reasons for which people believe they hold their...
    Humilitarian - my latest (and last?) politically motivated project
    Robin Koerner
    • Oct 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    Humilitarian - my latest (and last?) politically motivated project

    Quietly in the background of my life over the last year and a half or so, I've been working with volunteers to whom I am profoundly...
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