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Nicholas Clairmont
Editorial Contributor
Born and raised in New York City, Nick studies philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, specializing in Mathematical Logic and in the crossroads of free will, determinism, and personhood. His particular interests are: Logic, Philosophy, Motorsports, Kurt Vonnegut, Bertrand Russell, 20th Century American Literature, The Automotive Industry, and Debate.
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The death of the man himself shows that the word "Kafkaesque" is not guilty of the vacuousness which it is sometimes accused of.
America is the most original country in history precisely because everything American is stolen.
I neglected the obvious answer to the question of why there exists a useless, contrived, poorly phrased cliche which does not meet good principles of reasoning and serves only to cloud issues.
What does this phrase even possibly mean?
Thomas Jefferson's metaphor of "a wall between church and state" remains as sturdy and impenetrable as ever, even as it is dangerously ignored.
The biggest lesson from Popper's philosophy is that skepticism is the ultimate open-mindedness.