As our society becomes increasingly automated, some leading thinkers are talking about what to do for workers who lose their jobs. I’ve written a few blogs on the subject, myself. (Click)  One suggestion is to provide displaced workers a basic income.  Different from unemployment

Never underestimate the power of a good cosmetic when it’s applied well.  Young Joe Kennedy learned about his failure when he responded to the President’s State of the Union address on Wednesday, January 30.  Having slathered himself with lip salve, the cameras picked up

Sarah Jones, a writer for The New Republic  offers advice on how to seek a compromise to end the abortion war.  (“Turning Pro-Life Blue,” by Sara Jones, The New Republic, Jan. 8, 2018, pgs. 9-10)  Unfortunately, being young, she fails to recognize her advice is alre

During a television interview about partisan politics, Republican, David Gergen, said a great divide existed between the Republican Party in the Watergate era and the one that exists today.  The difference, and I paraphrase here, is that Watergate Republicans put the country before t

Wishing for the good-old-days, makes me look old-fashioned, no doubt.  But I wish for them, all the same.  The electronic age has complicated my life in so many ways.  I’m in a perpetual race to manage the upgrades, master new apps and avoid hacker traps along the way

In a recent opinion piece, Clive Thompson begins with the question, “What do you do when you discover you are wrong?” (“Retraction Heroes,” by Clive Thompson, Wired, Feb, 2018, pg. 034.)  He goes on to extol the merits of an evolutionary biologist, Daniel Bolnick, who pub

NBC TV host Megan Kelly and Jane Fonda squared off recently during an interview in which Kelly asked Fonda about her cosmetic surgeries. (Click)  Fonda was caught off guard.  She’d come to promote her latest theatrical venue and wasn’t expecting a girly snarl.  The question str

For the very rich, collecting art isn’t for love but for money.  (Blog 2/20/17)  In today’s world, investors are looking for guarantees.   (Blog, 6/20/17)  They want a fixed price for a famous work they put up for sale.  Otherwise, they risk lowering

In 1952, a man flew to Denmark and came back as a woman.  Her new name was Christine Jorgensen, and she made headlines around the world.  I was 16 at the time and, until Christine made her sex change public, I never understood people could  be uncomfortable with their gender. Sadly

  We’ve come a long way from the Arab Spring when Facebook’s technology and that of other social media platforms stirred and facilitated freedom lovers.  Those who supported democratic movements thought they were witnessing technology’s miracle: the ability for ordinar