by Ken JP Stuczynski | Mar 3, 2011 | Business & Economics, Society & Culture
I think educating consumers is the way to go. I don’t mean bumper-sticker initiatives to buy American or boycott Wal-Mart. And I certainly don’t mean buying union-made goods just because the people who made it have some spurious noble right superseding...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 28, 2011 | Business & Economics, Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 3-9-06} Do all high school teachers hate capitalism? Or just the ones in Colorado? By now, you’ve probably heard of geography teacher Jay Bennish and his 60’s-era classroom rants. Bennish delivered a 20-minute...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 24, 2011 | Featured, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
It was [[Lech Walesa]] who said that the greatest export of the United States ought to be Human Rights. American grade schoolers are taught our Revolution over two hundred years ago inspired the French Revolution and marked the beginning of the end of Monarchy, and...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 17, 2011 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
More than ever, the Internet is a portal to the most honest, unfiltered view of human society in everyday life. It is a constant demonstration of the role of (positive) Capitalist values in supplying freedom of speech, assembly, and the pursuit of happiness. And this...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 14, 2011 | Education, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2-9-06} Last week I was invited to a conference on school reform. I spoke about the sorry state of mathematics education in America and how we can make it better. You’d think math would be a bipartisan issue, but...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 6, 2011 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 1-26-06} There is no right to health care. I don’t think saying that makes me a jerk. I don’t think that makes me greedy, selfish or lacking in compassion. I think it just makes me honest. I don’t mean to get...
