Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: 10 year old wants to talk to you about the Book of Job; how melatonin can help Covid; if they discovered life on Mars how would you view God; how can you believe in objective morality; 92 year old how can I be happy after my wife has passed?

You’ll be a much happier if you can approach most of life’s problem with the seriousness they deserve — which means not much. The key phrase is “So what?”

Are we now to believe that there isn’t one right answer in math? How does this help students?… Dennis gave a talk to NYU students over Zoom. His talk was constantly disrupted… Our “best educated” are the ones who are most likely to believe nonsense — men can give birth, our world will end in a decade because of global warming, the US is systemically racist… Is there a scale of “whiteness.”