What Is a Human? The Center - “In fact, heterosexuality and the male-female binary can be observed across countless species. The onus of proof, therefore, is on those who claim that we are an exception.” Gerfried Ambrosch 12/21/2022
Work Is About Knowledge That Pays and Relationships That Are Priceless The Center - “And both wages and relationships advance worker opportunity, the essential elements of which are what individuals know (i.e., profitable knowledge) and whom they know (i.e., priceless relationships).” Bruno V. Manno 12/15/2022
The Boredom of War The Right - “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s biggest enemy is not the West’s reticence to sending more drones, more weapons, and more fighter jets. President Zelenskyy’s biggest enemy is boredom.” Brian Patrick Bolger 12/12/2022
Mary Harrington: On a Philosophy of Limits The Right - “And my argument is that freedom and progress in the context of the cyborg era are actually inimical to women’s interests. They don’t make things better for any women, except [for] a very small, elite subset.” Henry George 12/7/2022
Abortion and the Mythic Mother Personal Essay - “They do not realize good mothering comes from fearlessness. Few things promote more fear than being deprived of control of one’s own body.” Melissa Knox 12/5/2022
On the Inevitability of Racism The Center - “As psychoanalysis long ago has perspicaciously demonstrated, prejudice is universal to human nature and is evolutionarily informed.” Jon Mills 12/5/2022
COVID-19 and the Banality of Evil The Left - “Compulsory obedience can especially be seen in how the Democratic Party has changed since the election of President Biden in 2020. Before he entered office, COVID-19 was more accepted as an important and legitimate issue.” Andrew Joseph Pegoda 12/4/2022
Five Poems of Neighborhood  Poetry - “‘What have you got there?’ ‘It’s snapper.’/“Did you catch it?’ ‘No, my dad caught it—/He says to watch out for any tiny bones.'”  Harold Jones 12/2/2022
Russia Will Pursue Desperate Strategies After It Exhausts Its Missile Supply The Center - “Aside from the fact that history shows that rockets are far more useful at inflicting damage against military than civilian targets, their misuse may indicate an underlying strategic desperation in the Kremlin.” Julian Spencer-Churchill 12/1/2022
The First Metaverse Nation The Center - “What is new, in this case, is that the people of Tuvalu are hoping their future metaverse-based civilization will continue to function as a state and will be recognized internationally as a proper nation.” Peter Clarke 12/1/2022