by Ken JP Stuczynski | Apr 22, 2018 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
In an 8th Grade classroom of a charter school in Texas, a teacher hands out an assignment: to list the “pros” and “cons” under the heading “The Life of Slaves: A Balanced View”. Of course this was inappropriate, but not for the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 28, 2016 | Featured, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law
Maybe you’re a Republican who is shaking your head that “this is really happening”. Maybe you’re a Democrat who “got Berned” in the primary. Or maybe you’re among the clear majority of Americans who do not identify as Blue or...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 11, 2016 | Philosophy & Ethics, Psychology
Sometimes I feel that the only assured reward for clear thinking is frustration. It is fruitful to you when you practice it, but will generally go unappreciated and thrown in the dung heap with every other opinion. People only care if you agree or not, and not...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 28, 2016 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
People need to stop pretending that Hillary Clinton breaking some “glass ceiling” is a good thing. More than a stadium of people are in tears over the prospect as if it is the fulfillment of feminist prophecy or destiny. That’s fair enough to feel...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 17, 2016 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law
Someone brought to my attention — via the usual questionable memes on Facebook — an accusation that Clinton’s email scandal was invalid or overplayed because other secretaries of state, Colin Powell and Condaleeza Rice, also used private email. A...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 24, 2015 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
In a LinkedIn discussion on the allowance of extremist thinking, I suggested a line be drawn in terms of intolerance as a determining factor of clearly undesirable extremism. Why? Extremism is NOT hard to qualify. The line drawn between belief and fanaticism is when...
