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America's Reading and Education Crisis

on March 31, 2026

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New Publication: Thesis, Interrupted

AVAILABLE HERE IN EBOOK OR PAPERBACK Listen to my quick Vlog on The Invention of Latinos .

Exclusive! Photo (2003) and Undergraduate Philosophy Thesis (2004)

To read my entire philosophy undergraduate thesis, go to the Stetson University Archives . Stetson University and I hold all copyrights, and it may not be reproduced without permission. The photo below is a picture of me when I was doing my research. I did field work in addition to reading hundreds of books. I am wearing a shirt I purchased from a Native American business. Photo Credit: Jason Michael Frazier.

What Descartes Didn't Know

Imagine you have schizophrenia and you are in crisis. There’s a helicopter flying above you, and you believe that, but what you wonder is whether it’s The United States Military coming for you. You are paranoid. Paranoia makes you incredibly fearful—for your health, your family, and your life. You call your best friend with your cell phone, which your counselor said to keep on you as “a lifeline.” You are panicking. Your friend tells you he is sure it’s not the military out to get you. “ I can’t believe you, either. I wish there was a God so I could know what’s true!” What are you looking for here? A firm, solid, indubitable foundation to ground your beliefs. To ground, even, all of reality for you. That was the project of French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650). His famous Cogito Ergo Sum (I think, therefore I am) in his Meditations on First Philosophy proposed to ground all knowledge on the indubitable belief in, first of all, the inability to doubt that you exist, a...

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America's Reading and Education Crisis

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