Posts filed under: Opinion

While we don’t often think about them, standards of measure are one of the cornerstones of human society. If things aren’t sold by count, as in buying a single orange...
Just about everybody’s heard this famous six-word short story: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. It’s often regarded as a work of exceptional literary talent—so much emotion packed into six...
What is Free Speech? I’m going to give you a moment to come up with a definition for Free Speech in your head. Don’t go on until you’ve defined it....
If you haven’t heard of Universal Basic Income, you probably will hear about it again soon in the future. If ideas were sailing ships, then think of this one as...
Naming the Spectacular Play at the end of the Vikings-Saints Game If you haven’t seen it, you need to go watch the ending to the Vikings-Saints playoff game from last...
It was raining. Hard. I was trying to get to class that day in San Marcos, and the visibility was starting to drop. I had a rain jacket on, but...
A few weeks ago, I came across a great Rolling Stone article about a company named Magic Leap. I was excited because up until that article came out, it was...
The more I read about the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the more I believe that this little-known document might rank up there with the Magna Carta and the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
A few weeks ago, the French Ambassador to the United States, Gérard Araud, posted an incendiary tweet on December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day.       He has since deleted...
I read an article a few days ago concerning a change in one of NASA’s upcoming missions. By moving up the launch window on a planned mission to 16 Psyche,...