Thursday, July 14, 2016

Hillary Clinton's Extreme Reckless with National Security: A Rigged Justrice Department or Falling Short of Gross Negligence?

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In July, 2016, the FBI came to the conclusion that while Hillary Clinton was serving as U.S. Secretary of State, she risked classified info...

On the Business Ethics and Technology of Self-Driving Cars at Tesla

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During the summer of 2016, Tesla was under fire with charges regarding the technology and ethics. Both of these issues can be put into a wid...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Christianity as Distinctly Religious: A New Species?

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The human mind naturally tends to make (and remake) religion into familiar terms, while resisting the wholly other as such. As David Hume e...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

From Being “Real” to Mythic: Do Religions have Lifespans?

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Thousands of years ago, Greeks acted out narratives from what we now refer to as myths. The word myth connotes a religious narrative that ...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

SEC Investigating a Hedge-Fund Priest: Christianity’s Pro-Wealth Paradigm Lapsing into Greed?

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It is against U.S. securities law to knowingly make false statements or publish false information about a company you are shorting (selling ...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Picking a U.S. President: Excessive and Insufficient Democracy

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Even as the Electoral College has never performed as intended, that the delegates at the U.S. federal constitutional convention devised it ...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Adolf Eichmann: Justice or Retribution by the Victims?

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In February, 2016, 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning, a former guard at Auschwitz, went on trial in Detmold, Germany for being an accessory to t...
Monday, January 4, 2016

Increasing Complexity and More Energy in the Context of Evolutionary Biology

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In “the story of increasing complexity and then decreasing complexity,” we find complexity in “privileged localities” where “intense loca...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

On the Key Role of Energy in the Industrial Revolution

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Reading from Peter Stearns' "The Industrial Revolution in World History," I'm intrigued with the twin elements of fossil f...
Friday, January 1, 2016

The Big Short and Concussion: A System on Steroids

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Want a glimpse of the "powers that be," American-style? Three films--"The Big Short," "Concussion," and ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

On the Financial Crisis of 2008: Why Business Ethics Failed

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I submit that the academic field of business ethics failed in not being able to anticipate the fraud and exploited conflicts of interest th...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Pope Francis Addresses the U.N.: A Religious Rationale for Reducing Carbon Emissions

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Pope Francis declared to more than 100 world leaders and diplomats at the United Nations in late September 2015 that a "right of the e...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Business Implications of Power in Mergers: The Case of the New United Airlines

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Ideally, a merger combines the best features of one company with those of another company such that the whole is of greater value than the ...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Great Lakes Water in the U.S.: Treating a Union as a State

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Squabbling amongst states in a federal system may be an inherent feature of federalism. How much the jealousies and petty interests manifes...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

A Subtle Conflict of Interest in Obama’s Nominee for FDA Commissioner

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Robert Califf, U.S. President Barak Obama’s nominee in 2015 to head the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), had received consulting...