Culture

Weathering the Aftershocks of the Pandemic 0
- Culture
- May 26, 2020
Early one morning in mid-May I was drinking a cup of coffee on the front porch of my daughter’s house in Front Royal, Virginia. For weeks I had felt drained of energy, filled not with boredom but with lassitude, putting off cleaning my basement apartment, the books I needed to read for review, a magazine
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‘Guilt by Accusation’: Torment With No Exit 0
- Culture
- May 26, 2020
Even hardened veterans of media brawls can stumble. Take Alan Dershowitz’s appearance on “Tooning Out the News,” a new CBS show which features fictional animated news anchors interviewing real personalities. It’s vulgar, insulting and surreal. And there is only one way out – through the dog house. But, somehow, for some inexplicable reason, Dershowitz accepted
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A Robot Parent Can Now Raise Your Kids 0
- Culture
- May 22, 2020
Parents overwhelmed with caring for their children as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cancel school and all of their children’s other activities can take heart. A new robot arriving this fall will handle your parenting duties. Meet Moxie, the new dystopian product from Embodied, Inc. The sound you hear when this robot boots up in Embodied, Inc.’s advertisement
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Fighting Back in Our Age of Deceit 0
- Culture
- May 22, 2020
Let’s face it – no one likes being caught in a lie. The husband who says he has to work late, is entangled with his secretary, and gets caught; the kid who tells his parents he’s going to study with a friend and winds up drunk and arrested: getting snared in a fabrication is never
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Social Distancing Can Kill, Too 0
- Culture
- May 21, 2020
Fear is a powerful emotion: it is sometimes rational, but it can cloud our reasoning. A number of fallacies pervade the COVID-19 debate. One is the fallacy of the missing denominator: we are told that X number of people have died of COVID-19, but we don’t appreciate the size of the population in which these
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The Media’s Double Standard on States’ Different Approaches to COVID-19 0
- Culture
- May 21, 2020
America’s economy is in the early stages of “reopening” after dealing with the coronavirus pandemic for months. It’s a process that won’t be easy, simple, or without hiccups. Meanwhile, many in the mainstream media are being true to form in making it a game of ensuring conservatives and Republicans look like reckless, heartless monsters for
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