By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The Centers for Disease Control has just released preliminary data on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and they show a dramatic increase in infections over four years. In 2017, there...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The world’s richest large country, the city on a hill, seems to be coming apart. —The Economist(6/14/18) In 2011 British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett released the second...
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.” It contained new evidence...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The advance of higher education unions has generally stalled at about 375,000 faculty—21 percent of private schools and 35 percent of public colleges and universities. This significant movement has...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist As I read about the fires raging across the western states, I’m reminded of my three years on “hot shot” crews in the late 1960s. One June day on...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist There is unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive us. —current U.S. intelligence official on North Korea Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile pledges are about as disposable as toilet...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Attorney General Jeff Sessions has quoted the Bible in support of his No Tolerance and Family Separation policies, but this passage undermines his case entirely: “When a stranger sojourns...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist I’m just back from a one-month trip to Portugal, Spain and Morocco, and I was reminded, primarily because of the spectacular Islamic architecture, about the relative peace among the...
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 “Gladiator,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Black...
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 the nation out of...
