As you all know, I have not been one to believe that the tides are turning. But lots of people think they are. They cite many victories, in court,...

“…there is no sound for we all live underground… now every mother can choose the color of her child, that’s not nature’s way, there’s nothing left to do but...

One of the first things totalitarians do when they set about transforming a democratic society into whatever type of strictly-regulated, utterly soul-deadening totalitarian dystopia they are trying to transform...

Remember the bad kids in high school? The ones who didn’t make it onto the honour roll or the dean’s list? In my day they were the long-haired kids...

Background: the epistemology of modern mass media I often come back to Neil Postman’s 1985 classic Amusing Ourselves to Death. It’s a penetrating analysis on the cognitive effects of media technology....

Todd Hayen Any group of human beings who are supposedly in a free society and who have a leader (or a council of people who lead), assigned by that...

In the digital age, the incessant calls to action reverberate across the virtual landscape, summoning legions of fervent warriors to wage battles against perceived evils. This rallying cry, echoing...

Todd Hayen The ultimate “good for you” is to be dead. At least that is what it would be if some outside authority, or entity, was watching our human...

Sylvia Shawcross Out there the freezing rain settles crystals on the high snow and in the trees and dens the animals are warm and dreaming. Inside the people in...

Todd Hayen Everyone knows Maslow and his pyramid of needs, right? Don’t feel bad if you don’t; it is just one of those psychological concepts psychologists like to come...

J R Leach In the dusty corridors of intellectual exploration, I, an avid follower of Jordan B Peterson’s insights into Jungian psychology and Nietzschean philosophy, find myself confronting a...

Todd Hayen We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal… Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 A recurring theme in...

Johan Eddebo On January 13, this Saturday, Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections are simultaneously held. There’s a lot at stake. The independence movement is facing off with Koumintang and...

Sylvia Shawcross When you grow older it is almost arduous trying to remember what once was. I was trying to remember when it all happened—when did the world I...

Todd Hayen Any of us who pay even the least bit of attention has been made aware of the problems of fast food and grocery-store-bought processed food. We are...

Todd Hayen We now are all suffering from acute trauma, in a trauma nation. I would venture to say in a trauma world, but I am not certain of...

Todd Hayen I was eight years old when John Kennedy was murdered. I remember getting the call from my dad, telling me rather flatly, “the president is dead.” We...

Sylvia Shawcross The rains of November are cold but the snows of November are colder. It is said that an entire generation of young men from the Ukraine are...

Todd Hayen Ever heard of Dr. Curt Richter? Neither had I. During the time in the United States where nearly anything was done in the name of science (these...

Michael Lesher Remember the serial murderer who called himself “Son of Sam,” and whose unpredictable homicides terrorized New York City for twelve months some 46 years ago? If you do, you’ll...