Students Protest Decision to Ban Protest

A School Board in Colorado seeks to ban the teaching of dissent and protest in the public school curriculum in favor of […]

Labor Dazed

On Labor Day I took my daughter to the parade.  It’s an event full of meaning but for her it was mainly […]

TED Talk on Power Literacy

This is How Power Works: A Primer and Illustration

The following post was written in 2014 during a controversy on our campus involving the resignation of a recently-hired University president, Timothy […]

The half-million dollar question

Here is a link to a guest column I wrote for our campus newspaper.  It deals with, among other things, the way […]

Four Decades Of Taxes And Spending, In 2 Graphs

Here is an interesting look from the Planet Money team at NPR at how our taxing and spending has changed little over […]

Let Them Eat Peppers!

I recently had a chance to visit an old friend who moved to Scotland several years ago.  He and his wife now […]

What If Money Were No Object?

Alan Watts describes in three minutes how to live a truly successful life.

Wealth Inequality in America

Here is a great little video that illustrates the extent of wealth inequality in the U.S.

UNLESS …

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. – Dr. Seuss