Posts in category VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT / WHAT IS OLD? By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. We all have a picture of what old is. Mine formed when I was a child …

VIEWPOINT / THE LIARS CLUB By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. I urge you to read Sissy Bok’s Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. What …

VIEWPOINT / HOW DO 1% CONTROL 99%? By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. They must have a corrupt intermediary, a political party, the GOP, that is comfortable …

VIEWPOINT / WE’RE CAUGHT IN A TRAP. I CAN’T WALK OUT…BECAUSE I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH, BABY By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. Remember that Elvis song? …

VIEWPOINT / SAY, I FORGOT YOUR NAME… By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. Let’s come right out and have an honest and open conversation about two octogenarians …

VIEWPOINT / CRITIQUE: HOW TO REWRITE HISTORY WITHOUT REALLY TRYING How Bret Stephens got it all wrong in his New York Times opinion piece. By …

VIEWPOINT / HYPOCRISY, HYPERBOLE, AND ABSURDITY By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. Has it occurred to you that many Representatives who voted to open an impeachment inquiry …

VIEWPOINT / THE SUPREMES By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. This quaint artifact of a Republic is by far the strangest feature of them all. This tiny …

VIEWPOINT / THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL BACKLASH By W. Timothy Carrico Weaver, Ph.D. The worldwide emergence of reactionary ideologies has caught democratic governments by surprise. …

VIEWPOINT / THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL BACKLASH By W. Timothy Carrico Weaver, Ph.D. The worldwide emergence of reactionary ideologies has caught democratic governments by surprise. …

VIEWPOINT / ON ONE SIDE OF THE FENCE JOY AND DANCING. ON THE OTHER MISERY, DESPAIR AND HOPELESSNESS. THEN THE FURY OF HATRED AND HELL …

VIEWPOINT / HERE’S TO YOU, TOM BRADY By W. Timothy Carrico Weaver, Ph.D. There are some athletes so exceptional that they transform teams. When Bill …

VIEWPOINT / WHAT IS OLD? By W. Timothy Carrico Weaver, Ph.D. I’m in my recliner recovering from COVID. I’m feeling old, but what is old? …

VIEWPOINT: THE GOP’S TRANSFORMATION By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. THE CONTEST FOR GOVERNMENT RESOURCES Let’s get it right out there. Politics is about who gets what …

VIEWPOINT / A FULLY EXPECTED SURPRISE By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. A recent AOL news story was titled: “Jaded With Education, More Americans Are Skipping College.” …

VIEWPOINT / THE LEARNED SCHOLARS ON THE SUPREME COURT By Timothy Weaver John Roberts asked a question that seemed to stump even his colleagues and …

VIEWPOINT / WHERE DO INSURRECTIONS COME FROM? By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. Three elements must come together to cause the disruption we witnessed on January 6, …

VIEWPOINT / UNDERESTIMATING A BRAVE AND HONORABLE PEOPLE By Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. Why have we in the west responded like the ten o’clock scholar to …

VIEWPOINT / WHY AREN’T WE STOPPING PUTIN? REEXAMINING A 70-YEAR-OLD DOCTRINE. By W. Timothy Weaver Please, people. Don’t you see this for what it is? …

VIEWPOINT / ACTING NOW IS MORALLY RIGHT. NOT ACTING IS MORALLY WRONG By W. Timothy Weaver, Ph.D. Forgive me for sounding a lot like Dean …