Scott Robinson
We've Found a Witch! May We Burn Her?
So... I was a Christian musician for many years, and was a critic of its music industry for most of those years. I am also a student of...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 13, 20234 min read
Rambo Jesus and Donald Trump
Rambo Jesus isn’t new; he has long since ousted the Hippie Jesus I grew up with in the Evangelical gestalt, parading on horseback with a...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 12, 202314 min read
Dark Trek
Much has been written – most of it by me, I think – of the redolent optimism and lofty ethics of Star Trek, and how healthy and nurturing...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 21, 20233 min read
A Wayward Son in Seventies Suburbia
IT WAS CHRISTMAS 1976. My family had just moved from one Midwestern town to another, and we’d been there long enough that I’d started a...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 29, 20236 min read
The Coming Sex Robot Market
Sex robots are already here, and they will rapidly grow more Stepford-like. In the film, they are designed to be indistinguishable from...
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Scott Robinson
May 21, 20234 min read
Terence McKenna and Civic Duty on Bismoll
When I was younger, I loved a comic book called The Legion of Super-Heroes. These weren’t just any super-heroes; they were a group of...
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Scott Robinson
May 21, 20234 min read
Mrs. Grundy
Many of Robert Heinlein’s later books are, to our chagrin, little more than monotone sociopolitical tracts spewing his personal ideology...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 16, 20233 min read
Bat-Villains
When I was a boy, grade-school-age, discovering Batman for the first time, I found his enemies thrilling. Out front was, of course, the...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 16, 20234 min read
The Jimmy Carter Humanity Academy
Author Robert Fulghum once wrote that Jimmy Carter wasn’t exactly a great president, but that he was hands-down the best ex-president...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 15, 20233 min read
AI and the GOP
AI is barreling toward us like a comet, burning with the heat of the sun and too massive to contemplate. It is growing exponentially,...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 15, 20235 min read
The Right’s Empathy Problem
They are long-established clichés: conservatives, according to liberals, are heartless – while liberals, according to conservatives, are...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 15, 20232 min read
The Friendship Recession
Behavioral professionals have been quick to note that today, three-plus years into the Covid-19 pandemic, most people are experiencing...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 15, 20234 min read
Sly’s Crew
I was never a Sylvester Stallone fan. I saw the Rocky movies and Rambo movies – some of them, anyway – and I didn’t find them...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 15, 20234 min read
Republican Freedoms
I grew up in a very conservative clan in a very conservative community in a Midwestern state that has become, over the decades, as red as...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 15, 20234 min read
Paul McCartney Meets Bertrand Russell
Bob Dylan stands in the role of rock’s resident philosopher – or he did, back in the Sixties. No surprise, then, that both John and Paul...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 9, 20235 min read
For the Culture War Win
To: My old far-right conservative friends Re: Your Culture War Dear old friends! I write to you today from a position of great confusion,...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 9, 20237 min read
Back into the Chinese Room
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! I’ve spent decades now immersed in the Chinese Room. I’ve argued it endlessly with...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 9, 20235 min read
Trickle-Down
As Ronald Reagan was being sworn in, I took up a post at my campus paper, the University of Kentucky Kernel, as its editorial editor....
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Scott Robinson
Apr 9, 20233 min read
Holodeck Lives
Lt. Reginald Barclay is a diagnostic engineer on Geordi LaForge’s staff, aboard Picard’s Enterprise. Awkward and nebbishy, he is...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 8, 20234 min read
Puzzles of My Childhood
I grew up in a Fundamentalist Christian world, an extended community of conservative middle-class families that took very seriously the...
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