White Paper: Paternalism and Protection, Women and Men
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. “Moral virtue belongs to all of them; but the temperance of a woman and that of a man are not the same, nor their courage and justice, as Socrates thought.” (Aristotle, Politics, 1260a 21-2) Decades ago, when I was an undergrad and the world was different, what with society being more Read the full article…
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TO ENSURE THAT YOU GET a copy of the winter journal, please click here. An individual membership is $50 and a corporate membership is $120. The Eco-Devo Promises: Let’s Unwrap Them Unelected redevelopment commissions should not have the power to take away money from other parts of government for a Tax Increment Financing project, especially ones that never come to Read the full article…
Morris: Civil Reality Has Been Lost
by Leo Morris I think there are two Americas. But the two I see are not the two a lot of people seem to be obsessing about these days. I experience one America through the fevered rantings of politicians and their media co-conspirators, and it seems so vivid I sometimes forget it is the fake Read the full article…
Morris: Algorithm Hell
by Leo Morris My reading habits have taken a strange turn lately, but it’s not really my fault. My Kindle has been bossing me around. It started when I discovered and downloaded a mystery novel about a small- college librarian named Charlie who solves murders when not walking his Maine Coon cat around town on Read the full article…
Schansberg: ‘The War to End All Wars’
Eric Schansberg November 11th (11/11) at 11:00 a.m. is the 100th anniversary of the armistice with Germany that ended World War I. At the time, it was considered “the war to end all wars.. It was soon replaced in the public imagination by an even larger war. Still, World War I was important both for what Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: Let’s Try Supremacy
Listening to the acceptance speeches after a harrowing midterm election, was it clear what the winners thought had been won? Some seemed to have counted the votes in their heads and concluded that the number represented fellow citizens who had astutely assessed character, intelligence and experience and had chosen him or her specifically to be Read the full article…
