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Will the classy literary ghost and the newly homeless ex-Senator stay together? Will Helprin, who avoided the draft in the Vietnam War (he apologized in a Journal column), hurl shame, through his boss, the wounded old soldier, at Clinton's draft dodging? (Helprin apparently did serve a year in the Israeli armed forces, but explaining this to a Chamber of Commerce audience in Keokuk, Iowa, could be complicated.) Dole's people seem to like the idea of more Helprin speeches. Which could leave the Democrats, searching nervously for something to worry about in this ominously optimistic season, a little...
...GHOST IN THE MACHINE...
...close to a tangible memorial as Oklahoma City has managed to create in the year since the nearly 2 1/2-ton bomb exploded. It stands at the center of a flat, hard, raw and windswept place; this section of downtown, already in decline before the blast, is now a virtual ghost town. For Americans far from Oklahoma, the hole blown out of our sense of safety and stability at 9:02 a.m. last April 19 has mostly healed. But for those without the advantage of distance--for the families of the 168 people killed and the more than 600 injured...
...during those 1,455 or so days when we're not voting? Work on a political campaign? Perhaps. But I think there are plenty of more direct ways of helping in the meantime, in that forgotten span of time between one set of PAC-and corporation-backed campaigns and ghost-written speeches and the next...
...between Chalmers and Dennett--the debate over how mysterious mind is or isn't--lie in the work of Dennett's mentor at Oxford University, Gilbert Ryle. In 1949 Ryle published a landmark book called The Concept of Mind. It resoundingly dismissed the idea of a human soul--a "ghost in the machine," as Ryle derisively put it--as a hangover from prescientific thought. Ryle's juiciest target was the sort of soul imagined back in the 17th century by Rene Descartes: an immaterial, somewhat autonomous soul that steers the body through life. But the book subdued enthusiasm for even...