This coming weekend, the F1 circus will visit Austin for the US Grand Prix. On the same weekend, NASCAR will be visiting the Texas Speedway. The events are about 3 hours away, but you'd never know it from the views expressed by a concerned citizen. There’s very little competition between NASCAR and Formula 1, but there is some, and I think it’s an absolute insult, lack of respect, lack of professionalism on the part of Formula 1 to schedule a race on the very same dayEddie Gossage -...

Recently I was listening to a podcast where two intellectuals were arguing with each other about the finer points of intention and the meaning of what people say. You can find the podcast here. The podcast was an interview between Sam Harris and Andrew Marantz and began well and good. Marantz is promoting a book in which he documents his experiences while embedded with social media creators and the anti-social people that use those platforms. This post is not about the contents of the book. It is about...