Why isnt there more personal information about Kohn on the bio page?
A.K. writes: A surprising amount of mail has been arriving lately with requests for details about my personal history. Some people are simply curious. Some ask because they think this information will be useful for a class assignment. And some seem angry about what Ive written and appear to be hoping to find some fact about me that will make them feel better about dismissing my ideas. We live in a society where the lives of celebrities are laid bare in magazines and television shows, and where people have come to feel entitled to information about the childhoods and private lives of complete strangers who are public or semi-public figures or even just authors. This sense of entitlement is actually rather odd, when you stop to think about it. In any case, Im more interested in calling attention to ideas than to the particulars of my background. Thats why my website is dedicated to the former rather than to the latter. Id rather that my arguments were judged on their merits rather than f
