4chan is a web site where a number of beta men hang out, according to writer Angela Nagle. (‘The New Man of 4chan,” by Angela Nagle, The Baffler, No. 30, 2016, pg. 64-76.)  4chan is a image board website and a beta man is the opposite of an alpha man — someone seen as virgi

A corporation’s imperative is to make a profit.  That imperative is baked into its DNA in the form a contractual agreement between the stockholder and the company.  A company that fails to strive for profits will, in all likelihood, be sued. As crass as making a profit may sound i

Ralph Nader writes about erosions in tort law which limit the ability of a citizen to be heard in court.  (“Suing for Justice,” by Ralph Nader, Harper’s, April 2016, accepts 57-62.)  A tort, which goes back to Roman times, is the due process an individual can exercise to redr

Media headlines are like cow pies in a country field.  Their purpose is to create a stink that attracts attention.  Truth is often a causality.   I’ve felt the sting of phony headlines as an elected official.  When I refused to relocate my office to the 14th floor of a new high

What most Americans know about foreign policy and life in other countries comes largely through war.  My mother, a Costa Rican by birth, has spent much of her existence fuming at America’s ignorance about other countries.  As a teen ager, I thought she was being un-American.  As

Advertorial is a new word in the journalist’s lexicon.   Many of us read advertorials without realizing it, unless our eyes notice the tiny word sponsored at the corner of the computer screen or see, special section in a magazine.  What the reader is looking at isn’t news but a

Abuses against women abound in the world, not only in times of war but as a condition of ordinary life.  Pakistan’s bill to ban child marriages  recently died because the Council of Islamic Ideology “declared the legislation un-Islamic.” (Excerpted from the Washington Post by

In the past, making an anonymous contribution to charity was the norm, according to writers, Erick Konigsberg and Ben Ryder.  Many one-per centers in their day, like John D. Rockefeller, contributed large amounts of cash to colleges and other public institutions with no fanfare.   

Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice who died recently, labeled his brand of jurisprudence “originalism,” meaning he imagined he could go back hundreds of years and peer into the minds of our founding fathers as they drafted our Constitution.  (Click) For Scalia to perform as mi

 Kade Crockford, Director of Technology for Liberty with the ACLU points out Americans spend billions of dollars each year fighting the war on terror with failed systems. In the meantime, the only disagreement between the two political parties  is about “how quickly we should disp