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  • The Passing of the Guard and the Coming Deluge

    The Passing of the Guard and the Coming Deluge0

    Many pundits and thinkers have focused on changes in the Republican Party following the election of Donald Trump. Gone are the go-along, get-along politics Republicans remember from the days of George Bush I and II. They are replaced by a rambunctious president who tweets his mind, who promises to “Make America Great Again,” and who

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  • The Parental Quandary of Letting Go

    The Parental Quandary of Letting Go5

    She was my firstborn, the privileged one who received the slavish affections of a delirious father instantly smitten by the new, fragile, squirming, little creature. Her birth unleased a whole new range of emotions and sensations: drooling euphoria, unhinged rapture, besotted reverence, incoherent adulation. There were the feedings and diaper changes and other more tedious

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  • The Paradox of Leveling the Playing Field in the Name of Equality

    The Paradox of Leveling the Playing Field in the Name of Equality0

    Concepts of equality have long formed the keystones of Western philosophies. Revolutions have been fought in the name of equality, our courts are built around the idea that we are all equal before the law, and activists have spent the last century working to break down the systematic inequalities affecting our societies.   Indeed, philosophical

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  • The Pandemic That Killed Debate

    The Pandemic That Killed Debate0

    Carl Sagan famously said, “the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.” This wisdom has been sadly forsaken during the COVID19 pandemic, when one powerful narrative has taken not only the public, but the scientific community, by storm. The story is that societies cannot survive the pandemic without

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  • The Pandemic ‘Treaty’ About to Land on Our Doorstep

    The Pandemic ‘Treaty’ About to Land on Our Doorstep1

    Almost 50 years ago, I had a conversation with my Uncle Russ, a family physician and a life-long Democrat. I was still a college kid, moderately liberal, and happened to say during a discussion of foreign policy something like, “Well, someday we’ll be better off with a world government like the United Nations.” To this

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  • The Overused “Teacher Bashing” Defense

    The Overused “Teacher Bashing” Defense0

    • September 2, 2015

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