Here, Frederick Douglass provides us one of the best justifications for investment in quality education. We’re raising a generation of people who are going to be unable to compete in the global economy, and have tendencies towards racism, violence, and …
Category: Sustainability
Why Trumpism Is So Entrenched
The thought expressed here represents a serious challenge for humankind, and it’s precisely the mechanism that keeps Trumpism so firmly rooted in place. The MAGA crowd is organized in lockstep around the principles of hate, violence, and exclusion. As MLK …
Socialism Is Coming, But What Does That Mean?
Americans tends to overlook the fact that all of us benefit a great deal from our government’s programs. Few of us spend any time at all asking ourselves where capitalism ends and socialism begins, or vice versa. Snow removal is …
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Teachers Form the Foundation of What Our Society Will Look Like 10 Years Hence
What we’ve done to our teachers, in terms of underpaying them, putting them in harm’s way, and cutting off their means to discipline our children, is deplorable. We get precisely the next generation of idiots and juvenile delinquents we so …
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We Need Some Nuanced Thinking Re: Law Enforcement
The meme here came from a reader who seems not to understand that everyone supports law enforcement as long as its actions are legal and fair.
Profiting from Catastrophe
The cartoon here reminds me of a similar one, in which a senior corporate executive is looking out a conference room window and sees flames everywhere. He tells the others at the meeting, “We have to monetize this. And soon.”
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From a Guest Blogger: How Mineral Rights Relate to Sustainable Development
In the intricate tapestry of modern development, mineral rights emerge as pivotal threads, weaving together the fabric of economic progress and environmental stewardship. This article delves into the multifaceted relationship between mineral rights and sustainable development, a liaison critical yet …
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Celebrating Noam Chomsky
MIT linguistics professor emeritus Noam Chomsky belongs in the same class as Bertrand Russell: a small group of extremely intelligent people whose contribution to society is a blend of a penetrating understanding of the world, married with a profoundly humanistic …
Stupid Lasts Forever
Ancient Athenian comic playwright Aristophanes made a good point here, and it would be easy to ascribe this as an explanation of the support of Donald Trump. Giving the matter a little thought, however, we see that Americans’ IQs haven’t …
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Plato on Empathy
In a world in which empathy seems to be on the run, it’s good to be reminded of what the world’s great thinkers have had to say on the subject.
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