by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 8, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
When it comes to cautionary dystopian tales, most of us know the biggies. Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm (the latter proffering up this blog’s name) are the gold standard. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is another classic. More contemporary writers...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jul 1, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
That incentives matter is a core kernel of debate between libertarians and Lefties (ok, and everyone else). They matter in police reform, and they explain why politicians have an incentive to maintain the status quo on the chronic problems they are elected to address....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 23, 2020 | Culture, Opinion
On my current reading list is a series of essays by libertarian writer George H. Smith on freethought and liberty. The ninth such essay discusses Deism, a form of religious belief that rests on a view of God as a non-interventionist “clockmaker.” One of...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 19, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
A police officer friend of mine (then a paramedic, now NYPD) and I used to debate policing inside and out during our shifts together as a paramedic team. He was a law school graduate and an intellectually honest adversary. At the risk of treating him as a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 17, 2020 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
The BLM movement, which has emerged as the “voice” of the George Floyd protests, has chosen to embrace the mantra “Defund The Police” as its remedy to the problems and factors that have resulted in unjustified killings of civilians by law...
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