Saturday, October 12, 2019

Airing Ideas at Universities: Beyond the Book-Burning Hype

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In May 1933, some Germans in Nazi Germany burnt books authored by Jews so as to sever Jewish influence. So when some students at Georgia So...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

The U.S. Enabled Turkey to Invade Syria: Absent the U.N.

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Turkey invaded Syria on October 9, 2019 “to flush Kurds allied with the US out of northeastern Syria.” [1] Strategically, Turkey wanted ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Is the U.S. Congress Too Beholden to the Financial Industry?

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That financial deregulation had any traction at all following the financial crisis of 2008 in the U.S. is stunning, for the implication is...

On the Role of Socialism in American Political Polarization

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In a stunning upset in the 2012 Republican U.S. Senate primary in Indiana, Indiana's Treasurer, Richard Mourdock, beat incumbant veter...
Saturday, October 5, 2019

Religious Violence as Hypocritical

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In the movie, Boy Erased (2018), the director of a church’s conversion therapy program invites the immediate family members of one gay bo...

Goodwill Dismisses a Solid Societal Norm: A Mentality beyond Unethical Conduct

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When managers of a business or non-profit interact with a societal norm by openly rejecting any obligation to act in accord with the norm, ...

When Retail Marketing Goes Too Far

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Marketing by retailers can go too far; this claim should be no surprise. That this has been so even when the marketing comes at the expense...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Boy Erased

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The film,  Boy Erased  (2018), is a drama that deals in a serious  way with the question of whether homosexuality is a choice, and thus w...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The European Commission as Political

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The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive branch, has been known for being a technocratic institution. Yet in drafting regulations, imp...
Monday, September 30, 2019

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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Sequel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) centers most of the dramatic tension on the...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

E.U. and U.S. Counterparts Met: A Basis for Comparison

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President Barak Obama of the U.S., and Herman Van Rompuy and José Barroso of the E.U. held a news conference following the EU-US Summit at ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Police/Security Over-Reaches: A Mentality Unfit for the Job

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Absolute authority corrupts absolutely, according to Lord Ashton. On an organization or even local scale, people with authority can play...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Downton Abbey

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Taking a story from a television series to a movie can present hurdles for screenwriters and directors, especially if they do not fully a...
Friday, September 20, 2019

The U.S. Justice Department and Facebook: Secretly Mining Personal Information

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Collusion between business and government has hardly been a rarity; the extent of secrecy regarding it , however, may be a surprise. Wherea...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

U.S. Constitutional Checks and Balances Under Threat: Congressional Oversight

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Ambition checked by ambition. The assumption that political ambition can be counted on is the key to the “checks and balances” feature of t...