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It Can’t Happen Here
Book Review – “It Can’t Happen Here” – Sinclair Lewis Yes it can happen here, and some would say it’s already happening. Written in 1935, Sinclair Lewis’ prescient novel, “It Can’t Happen Here” tells...
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Circling The Drain
In mathematics there is a concept called Pareto efficiency, it describes the impossibility for one side of an equation to keep taking without depriving or diminishing the other side. A common sense...
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It’s About Groceries
It seems at times that the world is what it must be like for a fly climbing a window pane. You can see it all out there but you can’t get to it. The window is transparent but, is what you are seeing...
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The Importance of Public Education
“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” So said Aristotle and likewise a number of others such as St. Francis Xavier to whom the quotation is sometimes attributed. Even Adolf...
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Thoughts on “It Can’t Happen Here”
Some time back I wrote a review of Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel, “It Can’t Happen Here”. I picked the book up again yesterday because, in fact, it did happen here. This essay will use excerpts from that...
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Thoughts on “It Can’t Happen Here” but it did.
I wrote this essay last November following the election. I was disheartening to say the least and I am republishing here as a reflection on current developments and how prescient Lewis was. It seems...
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The “transmission belts” Of Misinformation
I feel blessed that I am no longer responsible for launching an ICBM as I was during the Cuban Missile Crisis when John F. Kennedy was president and I do not envy those charged with that responsibility...
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“Enemies Foreign And Domestic”
Jean Piaget, one of the foremost experts in the field of children’s learning explained that in some “there is an absence of the desire to find logical justification for one’s statements, and … an...
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Winning and Lying
I recently read a long essay in the New York Times Sunday magazine about a young lady, Noura Jackson, who spent nine years in jail because of prosecutorial bad behavior. In this woman’s case...
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A Pacifier Nation and Governance by Chaos – or – How To Destroy a Social...
This is the first installment of several on the American Social Contract. Here is a perfect example of the kind of mentality we are dealing with. This is a quotation from Donald Rumsfeld justifying war...
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