Thinking Citizen Blog — Saturday is Justice, Freedom, Law, and Values Day Today’s Topic: How Bad is Anti-Semitism? What Is the Best Metric? Are You Sure? My father had many positive traits. His ferocious anti-semitism was not one of them. The same can be said for his mother who was…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Friday is Education and Education Policy Day Today’s Topic — Jacques Barzun: “Teacher in America” (1945) Last week, passing through my basement, on the way to the washing machine, a book caught my eye, “Teacher in America.” The author: Jacques Barzun. I had no idea how…

Liberal Arts Blog — Friday is the Joy of Art, Architecture, Design, Film, and All Things Visual Day Today’s Topic: Fashion — Three Iconic Photographs (Steichen, Avedon, Cole) Are you into fashion? Over the last decade, I have been astounded at the number of students in Adams House who plan…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Thursday is Health, Health Care, and Global Health Policy Day Today’s Topic: Alcohol Deaths Up 26% in the First Year of Covid — Looking Back, What Were the Costs of the Lockdown? Have you read an objective assessment of the benefits and costs of the Covid…

Liberal Arts Blog — Thursday is the Joy of Music Day Today’s Post: Three Rock Songs from Australia: “Down Under,” “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” “Friday on My Mind” So what is the best rock song to come out of Australia? Today, three candidates. “Down Under,” (Men At Work), “Don’t Dream…

Liberal Arts Blog — Wednesday is the Joy of Science, Engineering, and Technology Day Today’s Topic — Determining, Defining Location: Soldiers, Sailors, Astronomers My eyes glaze over as I look at a child’s globe and am confronted with a jumble of numbers — longitudes and latitudes criss crossing each other…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Wednesday is Climate Change, the Environment, and Sustainability Day Today’s Topic: Preserving Autumn Leaves, Flowers, Books, Bodies, Paintings, Cities Life is ephemeral. Beauty ephemeral. Or eternal. If somehow preserved. Think bog bodies. Think mummies. Think flowers between the pages of a book. Think ancient manuscripts in…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Tuesday is Economics, Finance, and Business Day Today’s Topic: The Whole Story in One Post — the Invisible Hand, the Historical Miracle, the Middle Way Economics needs an Arthur Murray, a Dale Carnegie, a Julia Child — a great popularizer. I am not qualified but I’m…

Liberal Arts Blog — Tuesday is the Joy of Literature, Language, Religion, and Culture Day Today’s Topic: Hare Krishna, ISKCON, George Harrison, and Me Yesterday afternoon I entered the check out line at the local Walgreens. The cashier appeared to me to be South Asian, either Hindu or Muslim. So…