by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 22, 2014 | Culture, Environment
A recent edition of the NY Post had an opinion piece wherein the author took to task some scolds who had issues with the message of the movie Interstellar. The basic plot of the movie (I haven’t seen it) is that the Earth is dying and astronauts are sent out to...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 13, 2014 | Culture, Economics, Politics
Much is made by many of the decline in American manufacturing, a trend that hit the headlines when China surpassed the USA as the top manufacturing nation in the world a couple years ago. Yet many, including so many of those who lament and decry the decline, are also...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 12, 2014 | Culture
Feminists are liberals, and liberals are feminists, or so it goes in modern society. The War on Women is supposedly being waged by the Right Wing and the Republican Party, so certainly, it seems safe to presume that feminism and liberalism share common values....
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 2, 2014 | Culture, Economics, Politics
Here’s a fascinating observation: The biggest cultural predictor that you will be trusting, trustworthy, generous, fair, and so on is the extent to which you come from a market-oriented society. People from traditional societies, from tribal societies, from non-...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 10, 2014 | Culture, Politics
I caught an interview of Joe Perry, one of the core members of the band Aerosmith, the other day on satellite radio. He was shilling a new book, which is apparently and in part a rebuttal to the book that his bandmate Steven Tyler released a while back. Tyler and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 10, 2014 | Culture, Opinion
Every so often, each of us comes across an idea, a phrase, a sentence, an essay, a book, a film or television show, or a work of some other form of art that strikes a chord, and that reshapes how we look at the world. I had one of those aha moments a couple years ago,...
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