On July 14, 2023, Hollywood actors joined the writers in going on strike against the studios, which had changed the business model in ways, ...

The European Union is not a military alliance, like NATO or the ancient Spartan League. Nor is the E.U. merely a free-trade agreement like N...

I submit that when a conveyer of the news becomes the story, something is wrong; in typing this sentence initially, I did not include I subm...

I contend as a matter of reasoned opinion rather than infallible fact that the Free Speech protection in the U.S. Constitution applies to no...

Private property, competition, and the market-mechanism have come to be assumed to be integral to the economic system of Capitalism. The ass...

The assumption that more police than we might expect have in not being subject to the law even while off-duty suggests that hiring, training...

In June, 2023, Starbucks had to face a unanimous jury decision in favor of a regional manager whom Starbucks' upper management had fired...

By lapsing headlong into partisan politics, especially on controversial matters such as “social issues,” otherwise known as “culture wars,” ...

Taylor Swift, an American singer and cultural icon in 2023, spoke “out against anti-queer legislation” during a concert in early June. “We c...

A salient aspect of the U.S. Constitution is the separation of church and state. A government cannot establish or show preference for a reli...

Having watched Oliver Stone's lengthy interviews of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, which had been taped several ye...

Ideally, a person is able to earn money doing something that matches one's authentic self. In other words, working in a field that is al...

American higher education contains its own erroneous nomenclature. Most notably, people having earned one degree in law or medicine are told...

In  the 2000s, I had the honor of studying under Patrick Riley, a scholar of historical moral, religious, and political thought. Even though...

Among Quakers (many congregations of which refuse to record ministers), some evangelical congregations, and other faiths such as Baha'i...