by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 2, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Sometimes you have to embrace the assumptions of an argument to really bring out how it is false, or even dangerous. For example, I do not believe mass surveillance works (or should even be allowed to work, but we’ll get to that). I do not have confidence that...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 3, 2014 | Society & Culture
I am always amused when people quote the dictionary. I have never known any such person to actually know how to use the book, or realize how common the [[denotation]]s are archaic and not relevant to the [[connotative]] use in the context at hand. Or maybe they are...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 21, 2013 | Education, Politics & Law
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 8-6-09} Last Sunday’s Gazette had a story about a center for math tutoring. I admire the entrepreneurial spirit of the owner. His business is a classic example of market success responding to government failure. All the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 29, 2011 | Business & Economics, Education
An associate on the Global Citizenship forum on LinkedIn, Olimpiu Frant, posed the question if the wealth of the richest companies and countries was made by academic economists (such as from Harvard was his example). The follow-up question is if these are the same...
by Fulano de Tal | Mar 2, 2013 | Philosophy & Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
“The Magical Mystery Tour is dying…”1 Traditionally, political theories and ideologies have given primacy to the mass as a social entity, whose motives and actions are determined by economic considerations, to the detriment of the analysis of drivers of individual...