Friday, July 17, 2015

Prey Hunted by and Helping a Predator

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Above: A human prey in water barely fends off a shark attack during a surfing competition. Below: Human prey have the upper hand, ...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

The American-Iranian Agreement: Moving Mankind Past War

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In an epoch of technological development, the relative dearth of political development as concerns international relations has been evident...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Pope Francis on the World’s Economy Idolizing Profit

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During his trip to South America in July 2015, Pope Francis appealed to world leaders to seek a new economic model to help the poor, and to...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

The Greek Proposal on the Heels of the Referendum on Austerity: A Case of Avoidable Betrayal

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Only days after appealing to the will of the people, Greece’s prime minister put forward a proposal to the state’s creditors that contradic...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Property Rights in China: On the Separation of Ownership and Control in the Stock Market

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It is too simplistic to say that economies around the world converged as capitalistic after the collapse of the Soviet command-and-control ...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

A Greek Referendum on Creditor Demands: Orchestrated Impediments to Reaching the People

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On June 27, 2015, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced a referendum on whether Greece should accept additional austerity in the f...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Pope Francis on Climate Change: The Mutually-Reinforcing Impacts of Power, Wealth, and Culture

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Writing in 2015, Pope Francis addressed the problem of climate change and suggested what he, or the Vatican more broadly, considered to be ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

On Reaching Water Sufficiency: Can California Learn from Israel?

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As California faced its fourth year of an extreme drought in 2015, Californians could have done worse than look at Israel’s ten-year comple...

Ethnic Groupings in the European Parliament: A Function of Rhetoric

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L’extreme droit a formé un autre parti fédéral. The anti-E.U. party officially announced on June 16, 2015, is named “Europe of Nations and...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Dish Network and the U.S. Government Dominating Colorado: A Court Ruling on Marijuana

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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on June 15, 2015 that Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient from Colorado who had been f...

The Sound of Music: Marital Roles and Inner Transformations

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Fifty years after the film’s initial release in 1965, viewers of The Sound of Music could measure the imprint of the women’s movement of th...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The Zuckerberg Syndrome; San Francisco as the Epicenter

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It is difficult enough diagnosing a dysfunctional culture in a large corporation—imaging having a large American city as a  de facto  patie...
Friday, June 5, 2015

American and European Federalism: A Critique of Rick Perry’s Book, "Fed Up!"

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In his book, Fed Up! Governor Rick Perry of Texas provides a basis for viewing the states of the U.S. as equivalent to the E.U.’s member-s...

The Age of Adaline: Death as No Longer Inevitable

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In The Age of Adaline (2015), the age-old “fountain of youth” leitmotif springs forth yet again. In this incarnation, Adaline is forced to...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Americans on How Political Campaigns Are Funded: A Black Hole in the Center of the Political System

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Considering the widening cultural and political divides in American society that were on full display in Congress during the first half of ...