About this Site

This site contains samples of the hundreds of newspaper op-eds, magazine columns, journal articles, book chapters, and other published and unpublished short essays I have written over the years. I will keep uploading old and new ones. Click here for THIS MONTH'S FEATURED ESSAY.

Thanks and enjoy -- Joel Marks

INDEX to Essays

Animals
Of Humans and Mice

Asian philosophies
The Geography of Philosophy

Asteroids and comets
Apophis

Disabilities
On Being Disabled

Driving
The Right Way to Make a Left Turn

Gay rights
Sacral Rites and Civil Rights

God
A Plausible God

Hiking
Don't Give the Boot to Backpacks

Humor
Gerard Hoffnung

Law
The Rules of the Game

Logic
Facts and Forms

Lying and deception
The Truth about Lying

Metaphysics
Teleporter on Trial

Planets
And Then There Were Eight

Political ethics
The Rules of the Game

Research ethics
Of Humans and Mice

Stargazing
Golden Age of Astronomy

Television
Ubiquitube: Television as Muzak

LINKS to Essays by Title

And Then There Were Eight
A Plausible God
Apophis
Don't Give the Boot to Backpacks
Facts and Forms
Geography of Philosophy
Gerard Hoffnung
Golden Age of Astronomy
Of Humans and Mice
On Being Disabled
Sacral Rites and Civil Rights
Teleporter on Trial
The Right Way to Make a Left Turn
The Rules of the Game
The Truth about Lying
Ubiquitube: Television as Muzak