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• Stop the Hate Speech

  

  American political discourse “is ugly, as civility has been replaced by bitter reactive battles,” laments Michael Werner in a recent issue of The Humanist... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kids First: Pre-K, Pre-pre-K, Marshmallows, and Fish

  

  Our kids come first – how often is this heard? From parents, politicians, and do-gooders alike. Children are our future; we should invest in them, with... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Great News: Sri Lanka Blows Off Authoritarianism

  

  RajapaksaI have written before about Sri Lanka’s vile President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Yet another example of how power corrupts. Together with his band of... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Everything is Awesome” – The Lego Movie and Ideology

  

  (Consonant with my ongoing effort to provide readers with insight concerning seminal cultural phenomena, herewith is my meditation on The Lego Movie)A... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mario Cuomo and Bess Myerson

  

  My view of Mario Cuomo was not colored by his having knocked me publicly.I was a PSC administrative law judge, presiding over a case involving Long Island’s... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Has Progress Stalled?

  

  On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers achieved a 12-second, 120-foot flight. Within about half a century, we were flying to Europe in eight hours. After a... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Big is a Googolplex?

  

  K.C. Cole is an award-winning science writer, whose 1998 book The Universe and the Teacup—The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, I typically found at a used book... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Big Picture

  

  For all America’s partisan divisions, we’re in remarkable agreement on one thing: the country is on the “wrong track,” the American dream is struggling, and... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Christmas in July: An Economic Program

  

  It’s fashionable to decry the commercialism and materialism of Christmas. And I recently reviewed Naomi Klein’s book saying we must cut back our consumer... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My So-Called Political Career – Rage Against the Machine

  

  When young, I was mad for politics; active in both campus and local Republican politics in Queens, NY – generally playing the outsider-provocateur-clown. Yet I... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ebola: God’s Punishment for Homosexuality?

  

  Recently the Liberian Council of Churches met, with over 100 participants, to discuss Ebola. They unanimously resolved “That God is angry with Liberia, and... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Torturing America

  

  Some things are just wrong. Absolutely, and always. Surely torture is one of them. That it’s even necessary to say this, in America, in the 21st century, seems... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Building Trust Between Police and the Policed

  

  The non-indictment of Officer Wilson, in Ferguson, for Michael Brown’s death, was justifiable. Brown had just committed a robbery and was being violent. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Campus Rape and “Affirmative Consent” – Feminism Off the Rails?

  

  One in five college women is sexually assaulted – we’re told. I have a daughter in college (see her comments, below). But I’m skeptical about that statistic;... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov

  

  I’ve written before about North Korea. This 2013 book changed my view. (Ideologues take note.) I previously felt that the policies of the international communit... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Not to Save the Planet – Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”

  

  Globalization. Trade. Market Economics. Capitalism. Corporations. Economic growth. Writer Naomi Klein hates it all. Her book, This Changes Everything, argues... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Unconscious Racial Bias

  

  I bridle when I hear talk of persistent American racism. Sure, there is some. And, yes, after-effects of past racial injustice. But real racists today are... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Boy, Was I Wrong – Nonvoters Rule!

  

  Before the election, I said “Obama might be forced to get serious about accommodation with Republicans, on such urgent issues as tax reform and immigration, to... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Edge of Tomorrow” – Groundhog Day All Over Again

  

  The space invaders have already conquered Europe. Humans hope to stop them with a reprise of the D-Day landings – complete with paratroopers (though using bunge... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• When I Was a Kid America Was Like Africa

  

  Waiting for the TV news, I caught the end of “Homework Hotline.” A little girl called in; She said she’d come from Africa. So the host asked her: “How does... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY