"Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms" by Arsalan Iftikhar is a well written and passionate book defending reason and rationality. But the world is no longer a rational or reasonable place.
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Here Is What’s Bringing Them to Trump
They've missed the point, the pundits. Donald Trump's supporters think of him as the one man in America who can stall the coming demographic shift in America and maybe even halt it altogether.
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The online world should be a better place than it is and, just like the real world out there, it is up to us to make a difference.
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While wanting to capture every moment we have lost the ability to appreciate the seconds, minutes, and hours of our lives in a tangible way.
Read More »SXSW: Voter Technology Panel – One-Sided View on Voting Tech
“Voter Technology: A Reimagined Future”, a presentation at SXSW, focused on bringing election technology into the 21st Century. The speakers included Diego Bernal, a social worker and member of the Texas House of Representatives for San Antonio, and Peter Jackson, Public Sector Strategy Lead at IDEO, a design and consulting company based in San Francisco. Their goal: Use modern technology to facilitate the registration and voting process. They covered the motivations, possibilities and issues surrounding technology and voting.
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The 30th annual South by Southwest Music Festival begins March 15, 2016 in Austin, Texas with hundreds of panels, dozens of showcases, and thousands of live performances.
Read More »NYBG Orchidelirium: Orchid Intrigue And The Deadly Quest For Extraordinary Profits
"Orchidelirium" is a bedazzling, live horticultural spectacular, a sterling exhibition to celebrate the NYBG's 125th Anniversary.
Read More »Book Review: ‘At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails,’ by Sarah Bakewell
Whether the reader is interested in the lives of Sartre, Beauvoir, and Heidegger, or in search of fulfillment of one’s own enlightenment, Sarah Bakewell’s "At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails" account of the Existential movement is both fascinating and relevant.
Read More »George McGovern’s Ghost: Hillary or Bernie? – Agonizing Over the Democratic Primary Race
I'm "Feeling the Bern" but I'm haunted by the ghost of George McGovern. Help!
Read More »Dr. King’s Dream – To Honor Him Americans Must Unite to Make It So
The truth is that the "I Have a Dream" speech is a living thing, one that is as pertinent in 2016 as it was in 1963.
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