by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 21, 2015 | Election, Guns, Politics
Some political issues have short lives. Some tend to linger, or pop up from time to time before fading to the background. Some are timeless, seemingly never resolved to the point where the players and partisans accept that an outcome has evolved. Among those is the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 3, 2015 | Guns
Proponents of increased gun regulation have in recent years advocated for changes intended to close “loopholes” through which people who presumably shouldn’t be able to acquire guns can acquire them legally. They speak of the gun show loophole and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 1, 2015 | Guns
The recent shootings of a television reporter and her cameraman in Roanoke, Virginia has rekindled the seemingly endless gun debate. As has been the case of late, the various demands for “common sense reforms” have been met with push-back responses from...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 30, 2014 | Culture, Economics
Greed is a much maligned word. It’s one of the seven deadly sins. It’s something we are taught not to be from a young age. It’s something we reflexively dislike in others. It’s a self-contained pejorative i.e. no embellishment is needed when...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 25, 2014 | Culture, Environment
The English physicist Freeman Dyson, one of the great minds of our time, gave an interview at Yale a few years back about his (skeptical) views on anthropogenic global warming. In that interview, he elucidated his belief that those in the climate community who have...
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