by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 16, 2021 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
I can tell you — as so many others can — that social media is not “silencing conservative voices”. In other words, if you spread dangerous lies about the election or vaccinations, or called for insurrection, and coincidentally (or not) you are...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 25, 2021 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
We regularly see sentiments pitting the Trades against the Professions, as much as reasonable people recognize they are both indispensable parts of the same body. Some memes are outright mean, while others are simply calls to de-normalize parents’ and...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 17, 2021 | Politics & Law, Psychology
In a recent survey, 12% of respondents supported storming the Capitol on January 6th. We should be grateful the number is this low, with all the intentional polarization we’re struggling beneath these days. And it confirms my own estimates. From years of...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 11, 2021 | Politics & Law
There has been an oft-repeated claim that President Trump has been hounded by the press from day one. That’s a subjective statement I don’t think is worth disagreeing with. But let’s recognize it an apologetic attempt to explain why so many...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Dec 29, 2020 | Politics & Law
{Reprint of an editorial by Bruce E. Kenney, used with permission. Was published in the Olean Times, December 26.2020} To Rep. Tom Reed, in the late 1980s, as a Democrat, I ran against state Sen. Jess Present. I was unsuccessful, but during the campaign and after, I...
