On Monday April 14, 2025, the peer-reviewed sociology journal Socius published an article called “Breaking Free of the Iron Cage,” a striking title. Why was Breaking Free of the Iron Cage so arresting that even the lofty physics outlet Phys.org gave it space? StudyFinds, an outlet that sums up the latest eye-catching scientific research, said Breaking Free of
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Cory Booker, during his 25-hour record-breaking Senate speech Monday night March 31st to Tuesday night April 1st described the current state of America as a “crisis” and emphasized that “these are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.” Booker’s statement was dismissed as pathetic whining by MAGA cheerleader Sean Hannity. But it leads Democrats
On Monday, March 24, the Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the United States Postal Service, Louis DeJoy, announced that it was his last day in office. In other words, he resigned without notice. DeJoy had been in office for five years, since Donald Trump appointed him in 2020. And he had been a subject of
It all started at 2 am Tuesday morning, March 18th. Israel broke the ceasefire. War planes filled the Gaza sky. Bombs were dropped. Thirty-five airstrikes were made. Hamas claimed that over 400 people were killed, most of them women and children. But remember, Hamas makes heavy use of lying in war. It’s called taqiyya, a form of lying
Why are Americans uneasy? A year ago, in the spring of 2024, The Chapman University Survey of American Fears, indicated that over 50% of Americans were worried about a third world war, corrupt government officials, and terrorism. Since then, things have gotten worse. Why? Because the earth seems to be shaking under our feet. And things
I’ve now seen death from two very different points of view. In 1988, I was hit by an illness without a name, an illness that would imprison me in my bedroom for the next fifteen years. Today it’s called myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome. I lost nearly everything that had made me me, the
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos. The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong is Howard Bloom’s latest book. Bloom takes us on a grand journey from the emergence of the first life, flowers, and all the way to stars and galaxies. Bloom shows how the forces that drive the
MIT physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark says in his book Our Mathematical Universe that math is the universe. And many believe that ideas without a mathematical foundation are not science at all. Jesus had an opinion on this sort of thing. He said about the strictness of the high priests of his day, the Sabbath was made for man,
An attempt is being made to ban Howard Bloom’s book The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Boko Haram from the Public Library of Ottawa, the capitol of Canada. The Muhammad Code tells the story of the birth of militant Islam and of its goal—making war on the world
Tuesday, February 4th, a little after five pm, president Donald Trump made a series of statements on Gaza that stunned the world. He proposed that the people of Gaza be moved to Egypt and Jordan. President Trump said that America would go into Gaza with armed troops if necessary, that America would clear the land of
Even to a Democrat like me, Donald Trump’s first ten days in office were mind-blasting. President Trump issued over 100 executive orders, proclamations, and memoranda in just his first week in office. Joe Biden had signed 15 executive orders in his first day. Trump signed 26. Then Trump just kept signing. He broke records and hired 1,300 new
Here’s what the media is not telling you about the new Israel-Hamas peace deal. On Sunday, January 19th the new cease-fire will hopefully go into effect. The media is euphoric. A hostage deal, they say, has been reached between Israel and Hamas after 467 days of fighting and 459 days of negotiating. Peace is on the way. But Hamas disagrees. It
How you feel about America’s hopes for 2025 depends on the party you belong to. That’s the bottom line of four polls on Americans’ expectations for the coming year, polls from Gallup, Reuters, AP-NORC, and CBS News. In reality, these polls are a referendum on the upcoming Trump administration. Republicans’ expectations are sunny. Democrats’ expectations are grim. As a
Things are not going well for the government of Iran or for its people. Its proxy armies are in shambles. In Gaza, Hamas is a mere shadow of its earlier self. Its men are hiding wherever they can find the biggest crowd of civilians to use as human shields. And in Lebanon, Hezbollah has been stung
In the middle of November, roughly four weeks ago, the first of a deluge of reports appeared complaining of large numbers of drones the size of SUVs hovering at night with their lights on over New Jersey. Later more of these reports came in from New York State and Connecticut. And the number of these drone reports
Sunday December 8th the world was hit with a massive surprise. The government of Syria had fallen. Syria’s dictator for life, Bashar al-Assad, had fled to Moscow. In a mere eleven days, rebels had swept through the cities of Aleppo and Hama and had taken Syria’s capital, Damascus. Syria had been in the hands of dictators from
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. In a landslide. How did he do it? And what will it mean to the country? First, how did President-elect Trump pull off this triumph? He used three levers. Lever number one is publicity. Trump began to seek publicity 50 years ago. His mentor, the mastermind of the
The headlines say that as of October 30th’s polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck. But is that true? In FiveThirtyEight’s Recent Polling Average Update, which pulls together roughly a hundred national and state polls, Harris leads Trump, even though her edge is a slender 1.8%. In the Cook Political Report average of
Why does Donald Trump insist on bashing immigrants? His advisors have told him to concentrate on the economy if he wants to win the current presidential race with Kamala Harris But he always goes back to the idea that entire countries are emptying their jails and their insane asylums, then sending their “worst” citizens to the United
This is the most abnormal election of your lifetime and mine. At this moment, a mere eleven days before we go to the polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck. A Wall Street Journal poll issued Wednesday night, October 23, says Trump is leading by two percent. In England, The Economist’s Election
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