by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 18, 2017 | Culture
An essay by a self-proclaimed social justice activist has crossed my social media feed 4 times in the last 2 days. It was shared not only by the expected, i.e. conservative-leaners who’d offer it as a “wow, look at what’s going on over there,”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 17, 2017 | Culture, Education
It has been said that, if one is not a liberal at 25, he has no heart, and if one is not a conservative at 35, he has no brain. The statement’s origins are murky and more than a century old, but, given what we know about how people tend to evolve politically,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 14, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Trump’s victory last November has been the subject of more analysis than most of us can even fathom. The list of possible reasons range from the mundane to the conspiratorial to the bizarre, and, depending on one’s perspective, represent everything from...
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 | Jun 23, 2017 | Culture, Politics
Amid the deluge of terms and ideas pouring out of the culture wars and social justice movement, we find certain ones that stand out. One of these is the concept of intersectionality. Google offers us this definition: the interconnected nature of social categorizations...
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