Looking for the Political Middle in 2024 Most people would agree that today’s news media are polarized, leaning either toward extreme progressive or extreme conservative positions. It seems pretty believable that financially-vulnerable, online media operators might seek clicks at the… Read More ›
Commentary
Darwin in Trouble
While Darwin’s theories have been widely accepted during our lifetime, they sparked a controversy when they arrived in 1859, and continued to be hotly debated through 1950. Outside scientific circles (e.g. in the media), the debate usually centered on the… Read More ›
A Review of the “Woke” Movement
If you search for “woke” on your digital device, you will learn that it refers to the state of mind of someone who has awakened (“woke up”) to social injustices in our current world. A woke individual, once awakened, may… Read More ›
My Presidential Candidate Speech
( © C.R. “Gus” Manning 2022 ) My fellow Americans. As a candidate for public office, I want to share my views on what I believe are the important issues confronting our nation. This talk will reflect my desire to… Read More ›
10 Things I Learned from … You Know Who
10 Things I Learned from You Know Who Bad initial book reviews, being ignored by the media, and having a bad personality would seem likely to kill a writing career. Yet, Ayn Rand’s fiction books have sold more in each… Read More ›
How Bad is the USA?
Based on a torrent of negative media coverage over the past few years, you could get the impression that the USA is a pretty bad place. One way to assess how bad the USA might actually be would be to… Read More ›
A Performance Review for the Media
Often we notice something important while looking for something else. After watching a semi-old (1981), movie, Absence of Malice with Sally Field and Paul Newman, I checked to see what the critics might have said about it. The first thing… Read More ›
A Centrist’s View of the California Governor’s Recall Election
Ignoring goofy radio ads, the most obvious way to look at the California governor recall is that recalling Newsome would be “blaming him for everything”. While that is a legitimate view, here is another equally legitimate view. California has been… Read More ›
Waking Up to Woke II
Waking up to Woke, Part II In earlier writing, I characterized some tenets of “woke” activism as follows: (1) Systemic racism is endemic, though we have no evidence for it. (2) White people generally are responsible for bad things other… Read More ›
Hoppy’s Lecture on Liberty & Property – 1961
It was Friday, and raining in central Ohio, as I took my seat in history class just to the left of the aisle and one row back from Cary Ross’s seat on the right of the aisle. From this vantage… Read More ›
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