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  Telekinesis is described as the ability to move inanimate objects at will. Proving it in a laboratory setting is problematic. People who claim they have the ability usually can’t say how they do it and have difficulty managing it, which means it can’t be reliably... Read More →

  The cultural and media critic Neil Postman (1931-2003) was a 20th-century prophet. His seminal work Amusing Ourselves to Death, published in 1985, may seem a bit quaint today in its railing against the evil effects of television on reading, culture, and the very shape and... Read More →

  Writing in the September 1 New York Times about the financial woes of Social Security, C. Eugene Steuerle and Glenn Kramon insist “Young Americans Can’t Keep Funding Boomers and Beyond.” The gist of their argument is that given the pay-as-you-go financing mechanism of... Read More →

  Last month, I looked to an ancient Asian religion, Jainism, for help in rethinking the debates in the West over when life begins. Jains believe that human beings are embodied jivas, or sentience-imbued—and bequeathing—life forces. I suggested we might take a cue from them... Read More →

  The “casting couch” is code for men in positions of authority in Hollywood and on Broadway using their power to extract sex from aspiring actresses in exchange for acting roles. Call it rape with a bow on it. Psychobabblers tell us rape is about power, not sex. Bullocks.... Read More →

  Given that 81-year-old Democrat Joe Biden has taken himself out of the US presidential race, attention over the age issue has turned more sharply towards 78-year-old Republican Donald Trump. At that age he is somewhat older than an earlier presidential candidate for... Read More →

  In the hopeful spring of 1990, soon after the Berlin Wall had fallen and as freedom-seeking crowds of Eastern Europeans were kicking in the rotten doors of a crumbling Soviet empire, one of the great figures of the dawning decade stood by the Washington Monument looking... Read More →

  Abortion and euthanasia are two of the most scorched-over debate battlefields in the West. Positions for and against tend to stalemate because questions about life and death are often seen as absolute. When does life begin? When does it end? Answers to these can help... Read More →

  In a recent blog post entitled “Incrementalism is a Losing Strategy”, pro-life activist Bernadette Patel takes a pessimistic view of the current political climate. She particularly criticizes the strategy of passing imperfect laws like 15-week bans. Her... Read More →

  The preposterous idea that someone too senile to be a candidate is none-the-less fit to serve as president (have your 25th Amendment and eat it too) is a building block in the Democratic Party’s new Lego–like creation—an American electoral system engineered to fit their... Read More →