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December 24, 2019

Opinion—”Does Germany’s Industrial Growth Give the Lie to Liberal Economists?”

If politicians wonder about income disparity in the US, they need look no farther than the loss of manufacturing in this country. There are two major campaign promises that President Trump is fulfilling, both of which have come to a head this week. They are directly and problematically related to …

December 22, 2019

Opinion—”Why Everyone should Read the Book “A Warning”

I just finished reading Anonymous’ A Warning. Read it. A Warning is of course the book written by an unnamed high official in the Trump Administration. Anonymous, as she or he goes by, wrote an editorial in the New York Times on September 5, 2018, “I Am Part Of The …

December 6, 2019

This Week In Congress: Diversity on Boards, Money for Vets, Foster Teens, End of Impeachment Hearings

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December 3, 2019

Blockprobe: What is it and why one engineer felt compelled to innovate with it

In 2018, I closely followed the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which multiple individuals and groups were involved, such as Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, SCL Group, and a network of wealthy donors. I felt that the connections between these actors could not be captured merely by the articles written in various journals …

December 3, 2019

Opinion— “Imagined Slights”

There is a major, perhaps intractable problem with combating the hatred and ignorance rampant in U.S. society and politics today. Recently I found a way to verbalize it. In early 2009 I found myself spending a good deal of time in close quarters for work with a fellow who always …

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