Paul Craig Roberts, The Shooting At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School In Parkland Florida read
China spends $300million to buy lab produced meats from Israel read
Charles M. Blow, America Is the Gun read
Jordan Michael Smith, The Professor of Horrible Deeds. Fred Berlin has done decades of pioneering research on pedophilia — and outraged a lot of people along the way read
Philip M. Giraldi, When Will Congress Investigate All Interference in Elections? read
Paul Craig Roberts, Is Washington Sufficiently Intelligent to Be Trusted with an Independent Foreign Policy? read
Yuval Noah Harari: Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history read
, Selected Articles: Is It the End of Net Neutrality? read
Paul Craig Roberts, Does the ACLU Any Longer Defend Civil Liberty? read
David Frum, The Battle Over What It Means to Be American. Rev. Amy Chua, Political Tribes. “Chua’s message: Ethnocultural rivalry powerfully shapes both international relations and domestic policy. Ethnocultural rivalry will not be reasoned away. Its divisions are hard-wired into the human brain. The American reluctance to recognize this truth, Chua continues, derives from the country’s own unique inheritance, which optimistically insists that the nation’s internal divisions can and must be melted down into a shared ideology of Americanism. That inheritance, she argues, blinds Americans to the world around them — and even more ominously, deceives them about the most important trends within their own society….. Through her book pulses an evident worry that tribal claims are now overpowering national ones within the United States. If she cannot quite bring herself to make her own anxieties explicit — or figure out what if anything to do to address them — she is hardly alone.” read
Sarah Bakewell rev, Steven Pinker. “His new book makes the same case with updated statistics, and adds two extra elements. First, it takes into account the recent rise of authoritarian populism, especially in the form of Donald Trump — a development that has led some to feel more despairing than ever. Second, it raises the polemical level with a rousing defense of the four big ideas named in the subtitle: progress, reason, science and humanism — the last being defined not mainly in terms of non-theism (though Pinker argues for that, too), but as “the goal of maximizing human flourishing — life, health, happiness, freedom, knowledge, love, richness of experience…..“Enlightenment Now” strikes me as an excellent book, lucidly written, timely, rich in data and eloquent in its championing of a rational humanism that is — it turns out — really quite coo ” read
Toni Van Pelt on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (52m) listen
Jennifer Hancock’s Reality Based Decision Making is now available as an ebook, audio book and paperback read
Daniel Loxton, Is the Earth Flat? read
1. Trends in party affiliation among demographic groups read
edward hunt, A Culture of Violence That Starts at the Top read
Bobbi Dempsey, Martin Shkreli Is Going to Jail Because He Forgot There Are Consequences for Hurting the Rich read
read
James B. Stewart, Shkreli vs. Holmes: 2 Frauds, 2 Divergent Outcomes. Were They Fair? read
Adam K. Raymond, What We Know About Austin Bomber Mark Conduit read
Robert J. Burrowes. The Global Elite is Insane Revisited [politicians, businesspeople, academics, corporate media editors and journalists, judges and lawyers, bureaucrats] read
Howard Fishman, Swept Away By a Dark Current: The Plays of Eugene O’Neill read
Ten Million Americans Could Bring H.R. 676 into Reality Land—Relief for Anxiety, Dread and Fear read
Global Research News, Selected Articles: 2016 US Elections: Evidence for “Israelgate”? Russia Was a Scapegoat? read
bigtninkm 10 books of the Intellectual Dark Web you should know read
Amy Chua, How America’s celebrity obsession weakens the fight against inequality read
Breitbart,TOP CONSERVATIVE BOOKS FOR HAPPY WARRIORS read
Mark Goodale’s new colection of documents from UNESCO survey on human rights. “Perhaps the rudiments of an alternative model of human rights are to be found among the diverse responses to the UNESCO survey and the surrounding debates, discussions, and various expressions of dissent…..The process of revealing the richness, complexity, and ultimate ambiguity in the UNESCO human rights survey has reinforced the importance of understanding it—and the history of human rights more generally—through what the British art historian Michael Baxandall (1972) calls a “period eye.” Baxandall argues that one must develop the capacity for comprehending paintings and other forms of art by learning how they would have been perceived and appreciated in their own terms and times.” read
Mark Oppenheimer, Will Misogyny Bring Down The Atheist Movement? (9/11/2014) “To those outside the community, freethought would seem an unlikely candidate for this sort of internal strife. Aren’t atheists and agnostics supposed to be liberal, forward-thinking types? But from the beginning, there has been a division in freethought between the humanists, who see atheism as one part of a larger progressive vision for society, and the libertarians, for whom the banishment of God sits comfortably with capitalism, gun rights, and free-speech absolutism. One group sees men like Michael Shermer as freethought’s big problem, while the other sees defending them as crucial to freethought’s mission. The groups that make up the broader freethought community — atheists, who don’t believe in a god; agnostics, who are unsure; secular humanists, who seek to replace god-centered religion with a man-made ethical system; church-state separationists, who just want religion kept out of public life; and scientific skeptics, who work to overthrow superstition and pseudoscience — have two things in common. First, they oppose the hegemony of religious, including New Age, thinking in American culture. And second, they all have roots in very male subcultures. Steven Novella, a Yale neurologist and the principal host of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe Having written no books, she is the first major atheist whose rise has occurred on the web.” read
Jeremy W. Peters, Under Trump, an Office Meant to Help Refugees Enters the Abortion Wars read
laire Cain Miller, The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap read
Paul Krugman,Unicorns of the Intellectual Right “As others have pointed out, the real problem here is that media organizations are looking for unicorns: serious, honest, conservative intellectuals with real influence. Forty or fifty years ago, such people did exist. But now they don’t.” read
Tom Jacobs, Legal Pot Is Linked to Less Crime read
Food Sharing across Borders read
Global Research News, Let’s See Who Pushes War for “Peace” read
Animal Liberation read
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Cosmopolitanism after Windrush | Philosophy Behind the News watch
nytimes.com, Ethicists Call for More Scrutiny of ‘Human-Challenge’ Trials read
Jane E. Brody, Are G.M.O. Foods Safe? read
Jeff Schechtman, A Universal Basic Income Will Save the Country read
Vaughn Davis Bornet, Review of James Comey’s, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” read
Thomas White, What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil? read
John Michael Greer, The End of Progress read
Louis Menand, When Martin Luther King, Jr., Became a Leader read
Paul Craig Roberts, The Shooting At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School In Parkland Florida read
China spends $300million to buy lab produced meats from Israel read
Charles M. Blow, America Is the Gun read
Jordan Michael Smith, The Professor of Horrible Deeds. Fred Berlin has done decades of pioneering research on pedophilia — and outraged a lot of people along the way read
Philip M. Giraldi, When Will Congress Investigate All Interference in Elections? read
Paul Craig Roberts, Is Washington Sufficiently Intelligent to Be Trusted with an Independent Foreign Policy? read
Yuval Noah Harari: Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history read
, Selected Articles: Is It the End of Net Neutrality? read
Paul Craig Roberts, Does the ACLU Any Longer Defend Civil Liberty? read
David Frum, The Battle Over What It Means to Be American. Rev. Amy Chua, Political Tribes. “Chua’s message: Ethnocultural rivalry powerfully shapes both international relations and domestic policy. Ethnocultural rivalry will not be reasoned away. Its divisions are hard-wired into the human brain. The American reluctance to recognize this truth, Chua continues, derives from the country’s own unique inheritance, which optimistically insists that the nation’s internal divisions can and must be melted down into a shared ideology of Americanism. That inheritance, she argues, blinds Americans to the world around them — and even more ominously, deceives them about the most important trends within their own society….. Through her book pulses an evident worry that tribal claims are now overpowering national ones within the United States. If she cannot quite bring herself to make her own anxieties explicit — or figure out what if anything to do to address them — she is hardly alone.” read
Sarah Bakewell rev, Steven Pinker. “His new book makes the same case with updated statistics, and adds two extra elements. First, it takes into account the recent rise of authoritarian populism, especially in the form of Donald Trump — a development that has led some to feel more despairing than ever. Second, it raises the polemical level with a rousing defense of the four big ideas named in the subtitle: progress, reason, science and humanism — the last being defined not mainly in terms of non-theism (though Pinker argues for that, too), but as “the goal of maximizing human flourishing — life, health, happiness, freedom, knowledge, love, richness of experience…..“Enlightenment Now” strikes me as an excellent book, lucidly written, timely, rich in data and eloquent in its championing of a rational humanism that is — it turns out — really quite coo ” read
Toni Van Pelt on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (52m) listen
Jennifer Hancock’s Reality Based Decision Making is now available as an ebook, audio book and paperback read
Daniel Loxton, Is the Earth Flat? read
1. Trends in party affiliation among demographic groups read
edward hunt, A Culture of Violence That Starts at the Top read
Bobbi Dempsey, Martin Shkreli Is Going to Jail Because He Forgot There Are Consequences for Hurting the Rich read
read
James B. Stewart, Shkreli vs. Holmes: 2 Frauds, 2 Divergent Outcomes. Were They Fair? read
Adam K. Raymond, What We Know About Austin Bomber Mark Conduit read
Robert J. Burrowes. The Global Elite is Insane Revisited [politicians, businesspeople, academics, corporate media editors and journalists, judges and lawyers, bureaucrats] read
Howard Fishman, Swept Away By a Dark Current: The Plays of Eugene O’Neill read
Ten Million Americans Could Bring H.R. 676 into Reality Land—Relief for Anxiety, Dread and Fear read
Global Research News, Selected Articles: 2016 US Elections: Evidence for “Israelgate”? Russia Was a Scapegoat? read
bigtninkm 10 books of the Intellectual Dark Web you should know read
Amy Chua, How America’s celebrity obsession weakens the fight against inequality read
Breitbart,TOP CONSERVATIVE BOOKS FOR HAPPY WARRIORS read
Mark Goodale’s new colection of documents from UNESCO survey on human rights. “Perhaps the rudiments of an alternative model of human rights are to be found among the diverse responses to the UNESCO survey and the surrounding debates, discussions, and various expressions of dissent…..The process of revealing the richness, complexity, and ultimate ambiguity in the UNESCO human rights survey has reinforced the importance of understanding it—and the history of human rights more generally—through what the British art historian Michael Baxandall (1972) calls a “period eye.” Baxandall argues that one must develop the capacity for comprehending paintings and other forms of art by learning how they would have been perceived and appreciated in their own terms and times.” read
Mark Oppenheimer, Will Misogyny Bring Down The Atheist Movement? (9/11/2014) “To those outside the community, freethought would seem an unlikely candidate for this sort of internal strife. Aren’t atheists and agnostics supposed to be liberal, forward-thinking types? But from the beginning, there has been a division in freethought between the humanists, who see atheism as one part of a larger progressive vision for society, and the libertarians, for whom the banishment of God sits comfortably with capitalism, gun rights, and free-speech absolutism. One group sees men like Michael Shermer as freethought’s big problem, while the other sees defending them as crucial to freethought’s mission. The groups that make up the broader freethought community — atheists, who don’t believe in a god; agnostics, who are unsure; secular humanists, who seek to replace god-centered religion with a man-made ethical system; church-state separationists, who just want religion kept out of public life; and scientific skeptics, who work to overthrow superstition and pseudoscience — have two things in common. First, they oppose the hegemony of religious, including New Age, thinking in American culture. And second, they all have roots in very male subcultures. Steven Novella, a Yale neurologist and the principal host of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe Having written no books, she is the first major atheist whose rise has occurred on the web.” read
Jeremy W. Peters, Under Trump, an Office Meant to Help Refugees Enters the Abortion Wars read
laire Cain Miller, The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap read
Paul Krugman,Unicorns of the Intellectual Right “As others have pointed out, the real problem here is that media organizations are looking for unicorns: serious, honest, conservative intellectuals with real influence. Forty or fifty years ago, such people did exist. But now they don’t.” read
Tom Jacobs, Legal Pot Is Linked to Less Crime read
Food Sharing across Borders read
Global Research News, Let’s See Who Pushes War for “Peace” read
Animal Liberation read
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Cosmopolitanism after Windrush | Philosophy Behind the News watch
nytimes.com, Ethicists Call for More Scrutiny of ‘Human-Challenge’ Trials read
Jane E. Brody, Are G.M.O. Foods Safe? read
Jeff Schechtman, A Universal Basic Income Will Save the Country read
Vaughn Davis Bornet, Review of James Comey’s, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” read
Thomas White, What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil? read
John Michael Greer, The End of Progress read
Louis Menand, When Martin Luther King, Jr., Became a Leader read