The name ‘Marco Rubio’ has been bruited about as a presidential possibility for years now, longer than I’ve been cognizant of politics in a meaningful sense (given I only started paying attention late 2015). Of late, however, he’s been the
If nothing else, this book helps explain why reactions (and thus emotions) seem so much the substance of American national discourse at the moment, how people are so extraordinarily incapable (to appearance) of inhabiting and considering others’ viewpoints. They have,
Part I covered the center point of Iserbyt’s book (Skinnerian, Behaviorist education- education which is actually intended to program people, producing reactions rather than inculcating decision-making). Part II covered several of the subsidiary points of the work,1 including US entanglement
Last week’s introduction to this 4-part series1 focused on Iserbyt’s main thesis: the morphing of the American education system, particularly its governmental elements, into a Behaviorist, input-output system designed to produce people that react rather than think. Today, we’ll go
Sometimes a book recommendation sits un-followed for months before you get to it. Sometimes, five minutes after registering it, you find out that the PDF is offered by the author’s website, for free (which is good, because the print version
Part of cultivating your literary skills is reading different genres, if only as a trial, and lately I’ve been getting into the pulps. A short story of Ray Bradbury’s (creepy), some Solomon Kane and Conan the Barbarian (interesting), and now
Introduction World War One, from its own perspective, is an odd period of time, full of dramatic irony, tragedy, and dark humor. The three novels I’ll be briefly discussing today are classics of the era and justly so; I have
I have an affection for fantasy, born from The Lord of the Rings and fostered through the years, and an affection for historical fiction, born from many thousands of pages (hundreds of books, likely) in my youth. I’m not much