A Delicate Balancing Act The NY Times on May 21st published an editorial entitled “Charity Won’t Solve Student Debt” the title of which spotlighted the student loan debt debacle crisis. Total student loan debt now stands at $1.56 trillion with more than 44 million Americans...
The Work Ethic and Demographics Many Americans believe that younger generations don’t have the same work ethic as their elders. They don’t put in the effort, or the hours, of older generations in trying to achieve the American Dream. They’re not as motivated for...
The Trade War with China: What’s America’s Beef? Some have argued that the Trump Administration’s tariffs against China are overdone, a flexing of unnecessary economic muscle for internal U.S. political purposes. That’s not the reality. China’s anti-World Trade Organization actions are illegal immoral mercantilist...
The Return of Truthiness Coined by Stephen Colbert, Truthiness “is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination or facts.” Examples of Truthiness abound in modern culture,...
The High-Tech Arms Race We humans have a primal fear of machines and their capacity to out-think and potentially replace us. We worry that with their superior computing ability, machines might develop self-awareness and, in a very human-like way, seek to become Earth’s dominant life form....
