by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 2, 2020 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Every so often, a new word becomes de mode in the political sandbox. While the metastasizing social justice movement has provided a veritable deluge of such, along with words to describe those words, oftentimes a “new” word is merely one being used in a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 27, 2020 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Editors Note: This article is a follow-up to Inconvenience or Devastation, which explores citizens’ motivations in complying with pandemic lockdowns. In the grand tradition of dividing people into two groups, today sort people based on their attitude toward...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 13, 2020 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Editors Note: This article is a follow-up to The Politics of Lockdowns, which explores politicians’ motives and motivations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Early on in the COVID crisis, many warned that this fall would bring a second wave of infections, as...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 12, 2020 | Health, Opinion, Politics
Conspicuous Action. Those two words encapsulate a politician’s default response to any crisis (or “crisis” – many dubbed as such do not, considered rationally, deserve that level of emphasis), with the effects or efficacy of the action of...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Nov 6, 2020 | Culture, Health
A common theme, in looking at America’s galaxy of ills in the fall of 2020 is that we are moving from being a high trust society into a low trust one. Low trust societies have all sorts of problems, but they boil down to the fact that trust is a lubricant, and...
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