The No-Business Meeting: DEFINITION FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER (John Kenneth Galbraith)

“Men meet together for many reasons in the course of business. They need to instruct or persuade each other. They must agree (more…)

“Every Shadow And Thing In Creation:” James Agee

“In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, (more…)

“These Clothes Were Both Splendid And Invisible:” Eric Hobsbawm

“As always, it was not the sophisticated intelligences which were prepared (more…)

TWO KINDS OF DEMOCRACY- Forever Intolerable To Each Other.

Rationality and Democracy travel as fellows and arrive at a single and harmonious common truth- ideal and uncontroversial. (more…)

HYPOCRISY IS BAD: A Deliberate, Numbing Assault on Our Public Conversation

This is a long Essay: 3000 words. Only required for graduate-level credit.

PART 1

A CLOUD OF ARROWS DARKENS THE SKY.

We are all hypocrites. We are all immature. Some of us are more intellectually and ethically honest about it than others. There is no dishonor in honesty. (more…)

Exposing The Appropriation Of The Word “Liberal”

The term “liberal bias” is very sneaky.

“Liberal” and “conservative” have very different meanings. They really do imply and denote profoundly different orientations to our fellows and to our world. They work very differently (more…)