Wednesday, October 21, 2020

On the Ethics of Business Donations and Saving Souls

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In the film,  Major Barbara  (1941),  Barbara, a Major in the Salvation Army, has been raised with her sister and brother by their mother. S...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Coronavirus Reveals Dysfunctional Culture in Arizona

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In mid-October, 2020, when the coronavirus was again peaking in E.U. states such as France and Germany and U.S. states such as Wisconsin and...
Friday, September 25, 2020

On the Arrogance of Self-Entitlement during a Pandemic

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In the midst of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, libertarians in San Francisco, California objected to wearing face masks. Other people there ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Societal Change as the Mission of the U.S. Supreme Court

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By chance, I watched RBG (2018), a documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a U.S. Supreme Court justice, on the day she died in 2020. Being just...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

On the American Military-Industrial Complex

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A democratic republic affords many avenues for organized private interests to influence public policy. The fact that such interests are orga...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Britain's Obsession with Sovereignty Threatens Trade Treaty with the E.U.

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Months after Britain seceded from the E.U., the government of the former state went rogue in intending to pass a law that would unilaterally...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Miracles as a Literary Device

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The Greatest Story Ever Told  (1965) is known for being the first Hollywood movie in which the face of Jesus is shown. From the standpoint o...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Satan in Film: In Light or Darkness?

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Released in the last year of the twentieth century,  The Ninth Gate  is a film about the use of a book to conjure up Satan. The book's ...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

False Christians as the Power-Elite of a Church: A Case of Human Arrogance

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In what begins as a story about Bess, a mentally-ill (or cognitively challenged) woman who marries Jan, an oilman,  Breaking the Waves  (19...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Deforestation in Brazil: Exacerbating Climate Change

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On July 17, 2020, satellite data from Brazil's space agency showed that deforestation in Brazil's Amazon was accelerating. "Ne...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Corona Crisis: Arizona in a “Free Fall” and “Out of Control”

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On July 7, 2020, NBC News reported that Arizona had a record number of cases (105,094) and of deaths (1,927), with a four percent daily in...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

A Tale of Two Republics: Arizona and California during the Coronavirus Pandemic

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An educated and virtuous citizenry is essential for a republic to endure, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two former U.S. presidents an...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Integrity in Ethical Leadership

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In the late twentieth century, many leadership scholars explored the link between ethics and leadership. The ethical component was portraye...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Hebrew Bible on Wealth

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The early Hebrews considered wealth to be an integral part of human perfection and, moreover, what ought to be. [1]  The ideal man was weal...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Pope Francis: Religious and Secular Arguments for Governments Subordinating Markets to Social Norms

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The documentary,  Pope Francis: A Man of His Word  (2018) chiefly lays out the pope’s critique of economic Man. The film begins with refere...