by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 20, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
If you’re reading this, it is very likely that you are an internet-savvy consumer of political opinion. If you are an internet-savvy consumer of political opinion, it is very likely you have seen memes that purport various things Jesus would say or do....
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 13, 2017 | Culture
A recent political discussion that started with a story about how the Black Death was a “reaction” by Mother Nature to humanity’s excesses and overburdening her evolved to a recommendation that people could help fight global warming by having fewer...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 11, 2017 | Culture, Politics
A funny thing happened in Poland. Donald Trump gave a good speech, one that highlighted an element of his appeal to those who voted for him. He spoke in glowing terms of Western values and society, and their roots in individual liberty. Hold on – that’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 27, 2017 | Immigration
Just about a year ago, then-Secretary of State John Kerry told the graduating class at Northeastern University that they were about to graduate into a complex and borderless world. Given the continued hotness of the potato known as immigration (one further complicated...
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