Mathematics undergraduate in
Washington State. Primary interests: skepticism, crusading atheism, modern American poetry (1900 onwards), philosophy,
post-rock, math, the joy of satire.
Currently reading: The Palm at the End of the Mind - Selected Poems of
Wallace Stevens. I also recommend anything by
Cormac McCarthy although the Orchard-Keeper is kind of overwrought. The Life of Reason by
George Santayana is a good read if you can find it and remain skeptical of his political quietism (great material for atheists in Reason in Science and Reason in Religion). On the opposite side of the spectrum,
The Open Society and Its Enemies by
Karl Popper is a great moral tract, but Popper sometimes drops the ball, authorship-wise.