by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 25, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Consider two recent examples of the resistance to change that politically entrenched organizations put forth, two sides of the same coin, that go together like peanut butter and chocolate. One, which I am dubbing the Freddie Gray syndrome, is the argument that reforms...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 22, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
I once read that a car designer held the philosophy that a new design should be jarring or excessive on first blush. It seemed an odd thought, but on further examination I realized that it spoke to our endless capacity to adapt and our propensity to grow inured to,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 18, 2017 | Culture
An essay by a self-proclaimed social justice activist has crossed my social media feed 4 times in the last 2 days. It was shared not only by the expected, i.e. conservative-leaners who’d offer it as a “wow, look at what’s going on over there,”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 17, 2017 | Culture, Education
It has been said that, if one is not a liberal at 25, he has no heart, and if one is not a conservative at 35, he has no brain. The statement’s origins are murky and more than a century old, but, given what we know about how people tend to evolve politically,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 16, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
I grew up in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, NY. The Brooklyn. Not the old-money Brooklyn that is Brooklyn Heights. Not the hipster-ground-zero Brooklyn that is Park Slope. Not the gentrified Brooklyn that is DUMBO, Red Hook, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg or...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 14, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Trump’s victory last November has been the subject of more analysis than most of us can even fathom. The list of possible reasons range from the mundane to the conspiratorial to the bizarre, and, depending on one’s perspective, represent everything from...
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