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• Is Life (Always) Worth Living?

  

  A French court decreed that a teenaged boy was entitled to compensation for having been born. Medics had failed to detect conditions resulting in severe birth... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Florida Man Versus Florida Man for President

  

  When “Florida Man” appears in a news headline, cue some real crazy shit going down.A Florida Man, Governor Ron DeSantis, has declared his presidential candidacy. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Pez Outlaw

  

  Steve Glew was a Michigan machinist. A job he hated. Hated. But he loved his wife, a ’60s “flower child.” And his hobby, collecting old cereal boxes, which he... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Coddling of the American Mind

  

  is a great 2018 book by Jonathan Haidt, an NYU social and cultural psychologist, and attorney Greg Lukianoff, head of the Foundation for Individual Rights in... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 2024: The Battle for America’s Soul

  

  I vividly remember when Obama’s 2008 election victory was declared, and TV showed a middle aged Black Chicago woman jumping up and down shouting, “God bless... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine Foolishness

  

  This is the biggest foreign affairs crisis of my post-WWII lifetime. Shattering a world order which had seemingly eliminated the age-old curse of major power... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• May 14: Democracy’s D-Day

  

  The 1970s through ’90s saw a great democratic floodtide. Since greatly receded. Many wonder whether its authoritarian antithesis is really the wave of the... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gordon Lightfoot’s Ballad of Commerce and Industry

  

  Never a man of the left, I’ve always envied how they have all the good tropes when it comes to the arts. Poetry, songs, paintings. It’s so easy to create such... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mathematics: “Out There” in Nature, Or a Human Construct?

  

  This is an enduring conundrum. “Math,” of the 1+1=2 sort, is straightforward and obviously reflects how reality works. However, “mathematics” builds upon that t... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Debt Ceiling: This Time Looks Different

  

  We’ve been there, done that: Republicans try to hold hostage the Congressional vote to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, with maybe too a government shut-down, to... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Color of Law: Racial Segregation

  

  Richard Rothstein’s 2017 book, The Color of Law, concerns U.S. residential segregation. He says we have a myth that it’s de facto segregation, meaning mainly a... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rebraining: Introducing Virtual Reality’s Quantum Leap Forward

  

  First there was Pac-man.Anyone remember Pac-man? A computer game where you guided a little nothing to swallow other little nothings. Big whoop. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Afghanistan, Biden, and Trump: Is Biden Just as Bad?

  

  The Biden administration has released a report blaming the 2021 Afghanistan disaster on its predecessor.Well, sure. Trump, the great deal maker, had negotiated... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Arrogance of Power: India and Tennessee

  

  Long called “the world’s largest democracy,” India is becoming a DINO — democracy in name only. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party,... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• China and the New Cold War: Detente?

  

  What makes nations enemies?The Soviet Union aimed for Communism’s ultimate global triumph. The free world, led by the U.S., strove for containment. That was... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Government Witch Hunt — Masood Haque’s Film “Witness”

  

  Loud protestations allege government prosecutorial abuse, and FBI misconduct, improperly targeting a former president, a political hit job; a “witch hunt. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Right: Freedom-Loving Pro-Life Law-and-Order Patriots??

  

  People can be perfectly rational in everyday life, even while holding some goofy ideas. Such occasional lapses are natural and normal. But what if they become... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Trust Science?

  

  — a book by Naomi Oreskes — was reviewed at the Albany Library by Sherrie Lyons, herself a science author.Ours is the age of science. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Value of a Whale” — Capitalism and Climate

  

  Adrienne Buller is a thirtyish British think-tanker. Her 2022 book, The Value of a Whale, is subtitled On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Justice — Maybe Just a Little?

  

  The Judges of the International Criminal Court in the Hague have issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. For a crime against humanity (only one of his... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY