Friday, June 30, 2023

Celebration of the Music of 1973, Part 1

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Last year I dropped two posts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the music of 1972. Those posts can be found here and here . They were so ...
Thursday, June 01, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, The Free Market, and Joyless Culture

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In late May, hundreds of industry leaders, scientists, academics, and others intimately involved in the development of advanced artificial i...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Songs of Summer

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Matt King and I recently recorded a podcast in which we each list what we think are the top-ten summer songs of all time. Not surprisingly, ...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

On Tucker Carlson, Broken Clocks, and Media Strategy

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When Fox News founder Roger Ailes passed away in 2017, I wrote a piece called " Roger Ailes and the Eristic Revival ." That piece ...
Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Love For All, Hatred For None

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[Note: The Ahmadiya Muslim Community in Oshkosh invited Mayor Lori Palmeri and other distinguished Fox Valley leaders to speak at their 2023...
Saturday, April 01, 2023

Media Should Call Out Xenophobic Showboating

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American leaders should never minimize, make excuses for, or enable human rights abuses around the world--no matter where such abuses occur,...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

In Memory of a Populist Political Scientist

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My friend and mentor, Dr. James Simmons , passed away recently at the age of 76. Jim was a widely published scholar in the field of Politica...