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Tag: Ethics

  • Aggression, Guns, and Marcuse

    Better not knock on the wrong door or drive into the wrong driveway, you may get shot. Kids are afraid to go to school for fear of getting killed, as the body count from mass shootings climbs every day. Hate crimes are increasing, and just driving to work is potentially dangerous. Think of tailgaters honking […]

  • Listening to the Chronicle of Higher Ed

    Listening to the Chronicle of Higher Ed

    Note: I am not attacking people personally, or their right to opinions. However, I have been in this rodeo since 1983, academia, with the deans, chairs, provosts, VPs and presidents, and plethora of others, who hands down (not all) got it wrong about the value of and reason for education, K12 and higher ed. This […]

  • It’s Your Human Right to Access Russian News and Analysis Sites in English if You Want

    It’s Your Human Right to Access Russian News and Analysis Sites in English if You Want

    Collage © Jan Oberg 2023 The human right to freely seek information is laid down in the American Convention on Human Rights from 1968. Article 13 states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought and expression. This right includes freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds.” The Universal […]

  • Making Choices

    Making Choices

    The purpose of this article is to explore the making of choices, a subject that is not nearly as simple or commonplace as it may seem. Choice and Power, You, My Liberty Quotient and the Corpocracy’s Power Elite Choice and Power. To state the obvious, more powerful people can make and have implemented monumental choices […]

  • Ron DeSantis: Dogmatist Extraordinaire

    Certainty closes the minds of those possessing the Truth from on High. These darlings of the gods may even feel sorry for those benighted Unfortunates with the temerity of disagreeing with them and try to persuade them to see reason to save them from themselves.  As the blood-stained pages of history amply attest, dogmatists may […]

  • Class and Diversity in the Left

    A recent expose in the New York Times documenting how U.S. corporations exploit migrant children sheds light on a crucial issue facing the American Left. Nowadays, many left activists rightly focus on identity politics. To them, diversity is the order of the day. No argument here. Years ago, Richard Penniman, aka Little Richard, put it clearly: diversity is […]

  • The Home: the Most Powerful Influence on Learning

    The most powerful influence on learning is a student’s home life over which teachers have no control. This is a crucial yet obvious fact that the federal and state governments incredibly refuse to acknowledge in evaluating teacher performance. Students who come from homes conducive to learning usually do well in school. Their parents do a […]

  • What’s It All About, Alfie?

    What’s It All About, Alfie?

    Set in postwar London, Alfie features Michael Caine as a chauffeur bent on promiscuity. After impregnating his girlfriend he takes off on vacation. He continues his life of womanizing, but he can’t hide forever. A misfortune strikes and Alfie is forced to face the product of his ways. This not the crux of the question, […]

  • Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda

    Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda

    Orientation Definition of propaganda and the purpose of this article Are the chances better that you’d read this article if I called it The Ten Commandments of Propaganda? The author of the book The Ten Commandments of Propaganda thinks so because you have deep collective associations with the Ten Commandments because of the centuries of […]

  • Intellectuals and the Imperialist Affairs

    From time to time, academics, and journalists from the Global South, express their disappointment with what they call Western progressive intellectuals. These “progressive intellectuals” are accused of criticizing the imperialist policies of their governments and the propagandist nature of the mainstream media in general terms while relying on the same misinformation and disinformation that the […]

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