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Karin Meyers’s work on the “damned topics” of Buddhist philosophy is most powerful on the topic of rebirth. Because that’s the place where there’s actually some reasonably powerful evidence for the “damned topic”. Where I think she go...

American University philosopher Karin Meyers made an important contribution to Buddhist philosophical studies with her 2016 essay “T...

You probably know the story: Once upon a time, human beings evolved in Africa, looking much like the black people we know today, and then gradually spread out into the rest of the world over a few million years, evolving to look different in each place. This geographical spread created the different groupings we now know as races, each a branch off the human evolutionary tree...

A couple weeks ago I had my annual leg wax. I only get my legs waxed once a year – in the spring, when baring one’s legs becomes newly possible – because the process is expensive and painful. After that I just shave them, which doesn’t leave them as smooth for as long. (I’m bemused by the association of women with weakness when beauty treatments are so metal: you rip...

This post is about a difficulty with email subscriptions that occurred over the past year or so. If you’ve been consistently receiving Love of All Wisdom blog posts in your inbox more or less every week over 2025-6, you can safely ignore it. However, a significant number of my subscribers unfortunately did not receive posts starting at some point last year. If you’re one of t...