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COLUMN: Economics lacks scientific verifications

April 25, 2011 | 6 comments

The most persistent delusion among economists is the belief that their discipline has no limitations and that, like in science, everything can be reduced, quantified and calculated. READ MORE

COLUMN: Tax cuts do not improve economy

March 10, 2011 | 8 comments

Another Oklahoma income tax cut is expected to come into effect Jan. 1, 2012, despite evidence that strongly suggests the tax cut’s adverse impact on public services and income equality far outweigh its contrived benefits. READ MORE

COLUMN: Politics in need of more intelligent discussion

February 25, 2011 | 4 comments

Poe’s Law is frequently invoked when religious fundamentalism is mistaken for satire, as in the case of Raymond Comfort using bananas to prove the existence of god, or the Insane Clown Posse flaunting their ignorance of basic science to prove the reality of miracles (how do magnets work?) READ MORE

COLUMN: I am not a Google search — Privacy in the online age

January 25, 2011 | 6 comments

I fear a world in which people are ashamed of their own personalities. A world in which people are so afraid that the present may implicate the future, that they strive to suppress the very idiosyncrasies that make them human. A world in which a single tweet or forum post can be extracted, analyzed, and appraised as an adequate reflection of one’s worth, all within a fraction of a second and without any offer of rebuttal to the accused. READ MORE

COLUMN: A nude awakening — TSA and privacy

December 6, 2010 | 53 comments

In the furor surrounding the Transportation Security Administration’s new pre-flight screening procedures, some have argued that the body scans and pat downs are invasive, but that they could be worse. In my experience with debate, I have found that any position whose primary justification is “it could be worse” is almost certainly wrong. READ MORE

COLUMN: Food for the thoughtless — How education destroys creativity

November 5, 2010 | 9 comments

A chick-flick I recently watched, the title of which will not be mentioned for reasons of preserving my masculinity, took place in the 1950s and forwarded a feminist critique of society from the standpoint of university education. READ MORE

COLUMN: Bush tax cuts ineffective; should end

October 12, 2010 | 10 comments

In 2001, using reconciliation, the Bush administration enacted a series of “tax relief” initiatives that were set to expire by the last day in 2010. The peculiar expiration caveat was actually a loophole designed to understate the headline costs of the program to dampen the bill’s controversy. This fall, Congress will face the contentious issue over whether or not to extend the Bush tax cuts. READ MORE

COLUMN: America’s anti-intellectualism crisis frightening

September 24, 2010 | 26 comments

Polling data paints a grim picture of American intellectualism: we’re reading less than we used to, from a diminished variety of sources and for reasons that are increasingly external. Twitter, Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia, with their condensed, regurgitated and highly-processed versions of knowledge, have become our primary sources for information. Because of it, more people are reading less, both in quantity and quality, and it’s making us dumber by the second. READ MORE

COLUMN: WikiLeaks necessary for democracy

August 27, 2010 | 6 comments

WikiLeaks, an organization dedicated to anonymously publishing classified documents, has recently come under fire for publishing more than 90,000 Afghanistan war logs. These logs meticulously chronicle a long, secretive history of brutality, deception and corruption at the behest of American intervention. READ MORE

COLUMN: Nuclear optimism - or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

March 4, 2010 | 1 comment

Nuclear optimism refers to the acceptance of nuclear weapons as a positive force in perpetuation of peace and stability. READ MORE

Point-Counterpoint: How I learned to love the bomb

March 4, 2010 | 0 comments

Nuclear optimism refers to the acceptance of nuclear weapons as a positive force in perpetuation of peace and stability. READ MORE

COLUMN: The best democracy money can buy (author's version)

February 10, 2010 | 0 comments

On January 21st, a decision rendered by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission overturned centuries of corporate spending restrictions, institutionalizing the return of judicial activism and setting a precedent that will forever change the political landscape as we know it. READ MORE

COLUMN: Supreme Court got this one wrong

February 5, 2010 | 3 comments

On Jan 21, a decision rendered by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) overturned centuries of corporate spending restrictions, institutionalized the return of judicial activism and set a precedent that will forever change the political landscape as we know it. READ MORE

COLUMN: Our personal 'Brave New World'

January 22, 2010 | 0 comments

In his novel “Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley envisioned a dystopia where people became slaves to their own willful ignorance, while narcissistically flaunting egotism as a virtue. READ MORE

COLUMN: Our personal 'Brave New World' (author's version)

January 22, 2010 | 10 comments

Aldous Huxley in his novel Brave New World, envisioned a dystopia far more insidious than anything dreamt by his successor George Orwell — a world where people became slaves to their own willful ignorance, while narcistically flaunting egotism as a virtue. READ MORE

COLUMN: A columnist’s wake up call to the youth of America

September 25, 2009 | 9 comments

Close the blinds, turn the volume up, flip the lights off and gather round the television for another daily dose of self-imposed oblivion. READ MORE

COLUMN: File sharing system could solve piracy problem

September 10, 2009 | 0 comments

College students everywhere are mourning the tragic, soon-to-be loss of the Pirate Bay, an online file sharing legend that has recently come under some insurmountable legal scrutiny. READ MORE

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