by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 20, 2013 | Philosophy & Ethics, Psychology, Society & Culture
As a martial artist, I find that when I fight someone, they potentially have more to learn from it than I do (if they are willing). I am not surprised that beating someone is referred to as “teaching them a lesson”. This is true of debate. I may strengthen...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 12, 2013 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, August 4, 2010} With the dramatic entrance of Tom Tancredo into the Republican gubernatorial primary, the immigration issue is sure to be front and center this fall. That’s too bad, because the traditional conservative view...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 6, 2013 | Education, Society & Culture
This TED Talk is about what works and doesn’t work in education systems across the globe. And hidden among those lessons is one of “Command and control” …
by Barry Fagin | Aug 5, 2013 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, July 4, 2013} I would rather live with the possibility of terrorism on U.S. soil than the certainty of domestic surveillance. There, I said it. I don’t think that makes me less of a patriot; the Founders would have...
by Barry Fagin | Jul 22, 2013 | Society & Culture
{Published June 17th, 2010, in the Colorado Springs Gazette. OCR provided by “Free Online ORC”} There are about 50 of us at a conference, an international meeting for those who work in my area of mathematics. We heard of many of the people presenting but...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 18, 2013 | Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
Oh, great — another Trayvon-Martin-George-Zimmerman editorial. That’s what you’re thinking. Or is it just me? I’m all for constructive dialogue about important issues but that’s not what’s happening here. For countless writers and...
