Essays Categorized By Topic
from All Issues of the 'WMail' ezine
and from the Dateline Chamesa weblog

Each issue of the free monthly 'WMail' Working Minds philosophy email newsletter (ezine) usually consisted of an essay, news & information factoids, and a couple dozen stimulating quotations. The 72 issues were delivered by email from June 2000 to November 2007. Further essays are being posted to the Dateline Chamesa weblog [est. 2005], with additional separate postings of news factiods, handfuls of quotations, and non-philosophical, non-political items on a random basis. The links below are to all such essays, sorted by topic; a few are in multiple categories.

Behavior / Psychology Central WM Concepts Distinctions Ecological Economics General / Misc. Politics Quotations War & Peace

Two other pages also cover all of the Working Minds ezine issues & blog postings:
WMailindex (ezine full issues 2000-2007, most recent to oldest)
WMessays (essays in numerical/delivery order)

CENTRAL Working Minds CONCEPTS

#9 [April 2001]	"Reason-Based Taxation"
#11 [June 2001]	"A Third Theory of Relativity (Part 1)" (from WM Chapter 35)
#13 [August 2001]	"A Third Theory of Relativity (Part 2)" (from WM Chapter 35)
2007 version	"A Third Theory of Relativity" essay
#26 [August 2002]	"The No-God Universe" (from WM Chapter 28)
#34 [August 2003]	"Meaning"
#40 [February 2004]	"Paleo-Capitalism" (from WM Chapter 18)
#42 [April 2004]	"The Oligarchy"
#44 [June 2004]	"The Working Minds Manifesto" (from WM Chapter 23)
#48 [November 2004]	"Fulfilling Mankind's Potential"

DISTINCTIONS

#2 [August-September 2000]	"The Culture Structure vs. Granola" (from WM Chapter 22
#4 [November 2000]	"The Distinction BACHELOR" (from WM Chapter 22)
#24 [June 2002]	"The Distinction TRUST"
#27 [September 2002]	"The Distinction EVIL" (from WM Chapter 4)
#34 [August 2003]	"Meaning"
#37 [November 2003]	"The Distinction RESPONSIBILITY"
#45 [July 2004]	"What Is Reason?"
#49 [December 2004]	"The Distinction CONTEXT"
#59 [May 2006]	"The Distinction SOURCE"
#67 [January 2007]	"The Distinction POWER"
#68 [February 2007]	"The Distinction LOYALTY"

ECONOMICS

#9 [April 2001]	"Reason-Based Taxation"
#14 [September 2001]	"The Best Investment: Labor"
#16 [October 2001]	"The Priests of Commerce" (from WM Chapter 30)
#18 [December 2001]	"The Stock Market Casino" (from WM Chapter 18)
#23 [May 2002]	"The Class System of America" (from WM Chapter 30)
#35 [September 2003]	"Debt & the Working Mind" (from WM Chapter 17)
#40 [February 2004]	"Paleo-Capitalism" (from WM Chapter 18)
#42 [April 2004]	"The Oligarchy"
#46 [September 2004]	"A Living Wage" (from WM Chapter 30)
#50 [January 2005]	"Globalization"
#51 [March 2005]	"The Three Economies"
#54 [September 2005]	"F*** The Fed"
#61 [July 2006]	"Non-Monetary Economics"
#73 [November 2007]	"Unemployment In America"
#76 [June 2008]	"How To Survive The Coming Depression"
#78 [July 2008]	"The Robber Barons"

POLITICS

#3 [October 2000]	"John Galt vs. George Dubya"
#9 [April 2001]	"Reason-Based Taxation"
#12 [July 2001]	"Independence" (from WM Chapter 28)
#19 [January 2002]	"Virtual Tea Party"
#21 [March 2002]	"Tax Revolt"
#23 [May 2002]	"The Class System of America" (from WM Chapter 30)
#25 [July 2002]	"Injustice For All"
#42 [April 2004]	"The Oligarchy"
#47 [October 2004]	"Dumping Dubya"  { full issue }
#50 [January 2005]	"Globalization"
#53 [July 2005]	"I Want My Country Back"
#56 [January 2006]	"State of Emergency"
February 2006 Special Issue	Working Minds 'Boycott W-9 Project'
#57 [March 2006]	"Civil Disobedience"
#58 [April 2006]	"The 51% Solution"
#60 [June 2006]	"Climate & Politics"
#63 [September 2006]	"Bush & Blackmail"
#64 [October 2006]	"The War In Iran"
#65 [November 2006]	"Being Thankful"
#69 [March 2007]	"Summer Solution"
#71 [May 2007]	"Illegal Immigration"
#75 [March 2008]	"P.N.A.C., Fascism & Bush"
#77 [June 2008]	"In The Middle Are The Sheeple"
#78 [July 2008]	"The Robber Barons"
#79 [August 2008]	“We The People 2008”
#80 [Sept 2008]	“Rebuttal To The Rove-McCain Virus Email”
#81 [Sept 2008]	“Your Vote Is A Gift”
Essay #82 [Sept 2008]	“The National Election Is Contaminated”
Essay #83 [Oct 2008]	“New Homeland Assault Force”

WAR and PEACE

#29 [November 2002]	"War Is Good?"
#64 [October 2006]	"The War In Iran"
Essay #83 [Oct 2008]	“New Homeland Assault Force”

ONTOLOGY / BEHAVIOR / PSYCHOLOGY

#6 [January 2001]	"How We Learn" (from WM Chapter 14)
#7 [February 2001]	"Winning & Losing" (from WM Chapter 12)
#10 [May 2001]	"Being Pro-Choice" (from WM Chapter 7)
#12 [July 2001]	"Independence" (from WM Chapter 28)
#17 [November 2001]	"Game Theory In A Nutshell" (from WM Chapter 11)
#22 [April 2002]	"The Tao of Dumbo"
#30 [December 2002]	"Radio Silent" (from WM Chapter 33)
#33 [June 2003]	"Kids"
#38 [December 2003]	"Time Structure" (from WM Chapter 11)
#45 [July 2004]	"What Is Reason?"
#48 [November 2004]	"Fulfilling Mankind's Potential"
#55 [December 2005]	"Joining The Circle" (from WM Chapter 16)
#58 [April 2006]	"The 51% Solution"
#61 [July 2006]	"Non-Monetary Economics"
#70 [April 2007]	"The Cage"
#74 [January 2008]	"Fine Tuning"
#77 [June 2008]	"In The Middle Are The Sheeple"

GENERAL / MISCELLANEOUS

#1 [June-July 2000]	"Urgently Objectivist" (from WM Chapter 1)
#5 [December 2000]	Mini-version of John Galt's Speech
#8 [March 2001]	"Is Television Necessary?"
Special Issue #15	Special Issue on 15 September 2001  { full issue }
#31 [January 2003]	"Bilingualism" (from WM Chapter 25)
#32 [February 2003]	"Standing on Ayn Rand" (from WM Chapter 18)
#39 [January 2004]	"The 100-Year Exercise"
#41 [March 2004]	"Playa Vista"
#52 [May 2005]	"Route 66 & T.M.L.P."
#72 [November 2007]	Farewell Issue

ECOLOGICAL

#20 [February 2002]	"Electro-Magnetic Radiation" (from WM Chapter 37)
#28 [October 2002]	"Waste Not, Want Not"
#60 [June 2006]	"Climate & Politics"
#66 [December 2006]	"Cooling The Planet"

QUOTATIONS

#36 [October 2003]	First All-Quotes Issue  { full issue }
#43 [May 2004]	Second All-Quotes Issue  { full issue }
#62 [August 2006]	Third All-Quotes Issue  { full issue }

Quotations Used In All 'WMail' ezine Issues {and on the blog}
Quotations Pages {alphabetical by author}

Albert Einstein Quotations Page
Ayn Rand Quotations Page
Edward Abbey Quotations Page
Edward R. Murrow Quotations Page
G.E. Nordell Quotations Page
George Bernard Shaw Quotations Page
H.L. Mencken Quotations Page
John Steinbeck Quotations Page
Mark Twain Quotations Page
Thomas Jefferson Quotations Page

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