https://royrichardgrinker.com/ ‘People are nuts’. That was a maxim of my dear mother. She was the kindest, most loving person I know. She meant no ill will by that designation. In fact, there was wisdom in it. In his new book, ‘Nobody’s Normal’, Roy Richard Grinker, a professor of anthropology at George Washington University, reveals the …
https://www.amazon.com/New-Honor-Code-Standards-Restoring/dp/1982154640 What shocked us in the past has somehow become the the new normal in our politics, workplaces and overwrought interest in a celebrity culture. In fact, through social media, we aspire to join that culture, at least for fifteen minutes, by some reckless, attention-seeking behavior. The reward structure for living life out loud, in …
https://www.alternativeradio.org/speaker/david-barsamian/ Once America declares you part of the axis of evil or decides that your behavior require heavy economic sanctions, it’s tough to escape the impact our actions can bring. That’s why the notion of the Iran nuclear deal pursued by the Obama Administration was such a risky political move. Yet, by the strict reporting …
https://isa.unc.edu/faculty-members/lindsey-smith-taillie/ If we’re honest, most of us love sweets. And while talking about my love of chocolate on a radio program, my guest, a nutritionist, admonished me by saying ‘no you love sugar’. Indeed, I do. What surprised me is how much of it we consume in a day without knowing or thinking about it. …
https://ncdp.columbia.edu/about-us/faculty-and-staff/ The twenty first century has been nothing, if not, eventful. From man-made disasters like 9-11 to an economic collapse affecting the United States and Europe to a pandemic traveling the superhighway of viruses and touching nearly all quarters of the globe. If you imagine that the world will now settle in to a more …
https://republicofwrath.com/ American politics is loud, angry and bristling, so what else is new? Well, the make-up of the two major parties, cut more neatly along ideological lines than any point in our past, seem unable to be the vehicle for the design and acceptance of consensus policies. Perhaps, that’s because it’s not so much policy …
https://davidakaplan.com/books/the-most-dangerous-branch-tr/the-most-dangerous-branch-hc Given the partisan battles over recent Supreme Court nominations, and the Democrats frustration over Mitch McConnell’s fixation for affecting American politics through the federal courts for a generation to come, President Biden was asked during the campaign if he would expand the size of the Court. It’s been done a number of times before …
https://www.kevinvallier.com/ In the aftermath of the presidential election of 2020, we seem to be more polarized than ever before–fully retreated into political camps and tossing verbal grenades at the opposition. Our guest, Kevin Vallier, a political philosopher from Bowling Green University argues in his new book, ‘Trust in a Polzarized Age’, that as polarization is …
https://therealandrewmaynard.com/future-rising/ Man has never before had as much potential to affect the future as we do today. We can cure diseases in ways never imagined, develop technology to solve problems using algorithms that would have taken countless man hours and apply modern practices to the way we live to insure plenty for all. On the …
http://www.civilrighttocounsel.org/about/staff Matthew Desmond’s acclaimed book, ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’ drew attention to the eviction crisis in America. Estimates suggest upwards of 900,000 renters were being evicted every year in America. And that was before the pandemic forced a policy change putting a moratorium on evictions. Without it, those numbers would …