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Newsletter Nr. 1.407
Amsterdam, September 7, 2025


Wilberian Evolution: A Case Study in Pseudo-Science - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber has long presented himself as a master synthesizer—a philosopher who unites science, psychology, spirituality, and culture into one coherent “integral” framework. But Geoffrey Falk, in his book Norman Einstein: The Dis-Integration of Ken Wilber, shows that Wilber's treatment of evolution does not rise to this noble aim. Instead, it reveals a pattern of exaggeration, distortion, and evasion.

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John Mearsheimer and the Ukraine War: Realism or Russian Echo? - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Few Western academics have attracted as much controversy during the Ukraine war as John Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago political scientist and leading theorist of “offensive realism.” His argument is simple but provocative: the war is primarily the fault of the West. By expanding NATO and encouraging Ukraine's drift toward the European Union, the United States and its allies left Moscow no choice but to act. Russia's invasion, in this view, was a tragic but predictable consequence of great-power politics.

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