by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 9, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
It is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise himself. — Michel de Montaigne My household “reading room,” a locale that lends itself to the consumption of short bits of written material, has amongst its...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 7, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
I have a social media rule: I don’t initiate political posts or arguments on my main Facebook page. I break this rule only on extremely rare occasions, and when I do so, it’s almost always something funny, sarcastic, and nonpartisan (typically...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 4, 2017 | Culture, Economics, Politics
Locavore. Farm-to-Table. Artisanal. Organic. Non-GMO. So go the labels for a modern trend among progressive, socially conscious diners, who see our industrialized, mass-production, agriculture industry as something to be eschewed, derided, and protested. This...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 12, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
Words hurt, and feelings matter. Or, so goes a guiding philosophy of modern social justice. We bear witness to it, domestically, in the disinvitation of speakers at college campuses, in the establishment of safe spaces, in the rise of hate-crime and hate-speech...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | May 1, 2017 | Politics
Part 1 – On The One Hand…. The phrase, “Make the world safe for Democracy,” Shakespearean in its ubiquity in America’s philosophical framework on foreign policy, sincere and cynical, wise and reckless, was President Woodrow Wilson’s...
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