There was a time when democrats believed in pluralism, open-mindedness, tolerance, personal freedom, fighting for the downtrodden, a higher minimum wage, women’s equality, a colorblind society, free trade, abortions that were ‘safe, legal and rare,' were insistent...

Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes is a childhood favorite that bears an uncanny resemblance to 21st century America.  While the ruse is elaborate, the metaphor needs no interpretation.  At the same time, one of my favorite pundits, Judd...

Woke ideology is leftist ideology, which hopefully is becoming more apparent to Americans.  And many conservatives tend to equate wokism with socialist or communist ideology, so I thought it would be interesting to draw an economic comparison among the three (as best...

A dear friend and fraternity brother of mine has asked me where I get my ideas for my posts.  I told him that most of the time a thought just pops into my head, and I write.  But today's post was inspired by Dennis Prager, a voice of reason in an increasingly...

I wanted to do something a bit different this week so I thought it would be fun to look at bit of irony, that, depending on your point of view, you may find amusing or even go so far as to enjoy a bit of schadenfreude. We’re all aware of what’s going on with Bud Light...

Epistemology is the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope.  In essence, epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. And a great place to examine epistemological theory is to look at...

Language is an incredibly powerful thing.  And perhaps none said it better than Ludwig Wittgenstein who was perhaps the greatest analytical philosopher of the 20th century, who encapsulated the power of language with the words, “The limits of my language are the...

Recently a longtime friend sent me an invitation to an Online 14-week UC Berkeley course about income inequality in America.  The course is taught by former Clinton administration Labor Secretary, Robert Reich.  After watching the first class (and the last I might...

50 years from now historians will cite the three most influential presidents in American history as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Barack Obama – Without Washington our nation would have been aborted before it was born; Lincoln through his singular wisdom and...

In the mid-1800s thousands of European rabbits were introduced into Australia for the purposes of sport-hunting.  But rabbit populations expand exponentially, and soon the botanical composition of the areas where the rabbits were introduced was altered.  Because those...