The Spirited Reasoner

Imagine you’re the driver of a tour bus. You’ve been very clear to all the passengers exactly which route you plan to take. In fact, there’s been a vote on…

I had a conversation with a young man earlier this week. He related to me how his loss of trust in American institutions had begun after the 9/11 attacks. Our…

As I post this message on Saturday, January 8, 2022, Amy Scheider has just passed the $1 million mark in Jeopardy! winnings. Since, like many Spirited Reasoners, I’m an avid…

This week, the Spirited Reasoner thought it might be fun to switch gears. Since today happens to be New Year’s Day 2022, how about we take advantage of the opportunity…

Today is Christmas Day, 2021. Therefore, the Spirited Reasoner is determined to focus only on the positive. Surprisingly enough, there is quite a lot to be hopeful about as we…

I can still recall the first time I felt annoyed when a social media conglomerate thought it knew my brain better than I did. It was back in the early…

Back in 1914, nobody expected that a 20-year-old Bosnian Serb could set off the chain of events that we now know as World War I. Suffice it to say that…

With all the news about viruses and shootings and impending wars happening around the world this week, why would the Spirited Reasoner stoop so low as to write a critical…

This week’s unanimous guilty verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case raises an interesting legal question for Spirited Reasoners: Why did a unanimous jury in Wisconsin reach the opposite decision—i. e.,…

This past week’s acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges, including the most minor misdemeanor, raises the question of whether Americans have now lost the right to peacefully assemble as…