I’m confused and maybe its simply because at a very core level I like to think I’m still a child at heart – but why can people not live peacefully with each other? I realize that the question is very childlike and that the answer is buried in complexities of the billions on billions of [...]
Freedom of the press consists of three distinct aspects:
the right to seek information and ideas;
the right to receive information and ideas;
the right to impart information and ideas
More fundamental however is the fact that the ability to perceive and communicate information is fundamental to what it means to be human – our competitive advantage which makes [...]
Human society is a fickle thing. On the one hand there is the individual’s want to do what they please as they please to do it. On the other is an irrational fear of the unknown and the inability to control external events that occur around us. The conflict between the two drives the need [...]
There is currently a few people in this world who seem to feel that they need to establish rules of conducts and norms on the rest of us to the exclusion of the social trends that are going on around them. While I can’t speak to individual cases, it would seem to me that in [...]
Having travelled over the Christmas season the biggest thing that I’ve noticed is how terrorism seems to be working far more effectively than what people seem to be giving it credit for. The fact that security has been ‘beefed’ up and there are calls from the White House administration into what the failings of the [...]
Abigail Thernstrom from CNN posted an article today on the nature of identity politics and specifically about the state of race politics within the US. Now I love poking fun at stereotypes mostly because of the absurdness of many of the values that people hold or think that they don’t hold when pressed and made to [...]