Blog 3 Columns

Why Biden May Win 0
- Politics
- September 18, 2020
Last week the Cotto-Gottfried podcast interviewed New York financier and widely read blogger Adam Townsend. He strongly believes Biden will win the presidential race. Townsend did not seem to relish his analysis and kept returning to this desperate defense of the president: “For all his faults, only Trump will take on the mega-corporations.” Nonetheless, he
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What Kind of School Will Help Your Kids To Be Happily Married?0
- Education
- September 18, 2020
The debate over the merits of private schools versus public schools tends to revolve around their relative success in boosting test scores, graduation rates, and college admissions. Which are more successful in giving children the skills they need to thrive in today’s economy? Utilitarian questions like these frame most contemporary discussions of the value of
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Is Beijing Funding Riots in America?0
- International
- September 18, 2020
Who is funding the clearly organized riots happening throughout the U.S.? It’s a question often asked these days, without many answers. Black Lives Matter has been a consistent participant in each of the riots this summer. In fact, up to 95 percent of this summer’s riots are linked to Black Lives Matter activism, according to
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Finding Hope in America 0
- Culture
- September 18, 2020
In a time when America and its history are under assault, I recently found hope and inspiration in a visit to Virginia’s Historic Triangle: Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. At all three of these historical places I found much-needed relief from months of rioting and our poisonous political atmosphere. Everywhere I went – the Jamestown Settlement
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Biden’s ‘1619 Commission’ Is Unconstitutional, So Is Trump’s ‘1776 Commission’0
- Education
- September 18, 2020
Yesterday was Constitution Day, when Americans honor the moment when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed this extraordinary document in Philadelphia in 1787. Sadly, recent University of Pennsylvania civics surveys reveal that 37 percent of American adults cannot name one right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and only 39 percent
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Why U.S. Wildfires Hit California More Than the Southeast 0
- Economics
- September 17, 2020
California wildfires continue to blaze in one of the worst fire seasons in recent memory. While California fires are nothing new, government data show the damage has been substantial. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says that since August 15, when California’s fire activity accelerated, there have been at least 24 fatalities and
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Kenosha’s Return to the State of Nature 0
- Politics
- September 17, 2020
On August 28, lawyers representing accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse issued a statement asserting that the 17-year-old “was protecting life and community because his state and local government failed” and that he “was viciously attacked by mob and fearing for his life exercised his God-given and constitutional right to self-defense” when he shot three protestors on the
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Identity Issues: Probing Woke Culture 0
- Culture
- September 17, 2020
We are all different and all unique, and I try to treat everybody as an individual rather than stereotyping them as belonging to some group. I do my best to treat everyone with the same respect I’d like them to extend to me. But I confess to being un-woke and not understanding the logic behind
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California Wants Me to Vote, Even Though I Haven’t Lived There for Over Eight Years 0
- Politics
- September 17, 2020
States across the country are experimenting with a mass switch to mail-in elections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But is it wise for states to make such a big change, especially in light of messy voter rolls around the country? What I was sent earlier this month by election officials in Alameda County, California,
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Why Biden May Win 0