Robin Koerner
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),...
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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
- 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
- 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...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 15, 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...
Robin Koerner
- Jan 26, 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...
Robin Koerner
- Jan 21, 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...
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...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 30, 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...
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,...
Robin Koerner
- Oct 14, 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...
Robin Koerner
- Sep 21, 2020
- 4 min
“If the soul speaks, then alas it is not the soul that speaks.”
If the soul speaks, then alas it is not the soul that speaks. - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and philosopher For me, this was a...
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