Intellectual [intellect-shill]
By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals,” Noam Chomsky wrote in a 1967 essay, “to speak the truth and expose the lies.” Regrettably, for some intellectuals, …
By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals,” Noam Chomsky wrote in a 1967 essay, “to speak the truth and expose the lies.” Regrettably, for some intellectuals, …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
“Economic justice would require a land where men will not take necessities to give luxuries to the few.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many conservatives today, …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
In 2011 British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett released the second edition of their book “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger.” …
By Bill Harp
Reader Tech Columnist
In part one last week, we talked about the money problem and how cryptocurrency, or CC, resolved several problems associated with traditional fiat currency. …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Known as the “Door to the Sahara Desert,” Morocco and its great cities Casablanca, Tangier, and Marrakesh symbolize everything exotic about Arabic culture. The films …
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Trump boasts about the nation’s economic recovery, but during his first year the economy grew only 2.3 percent. The average for Obama, as he brought …
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