One Massive March for Science in Boston

What a positive, upbeat and spirited crowd we had in Boston today for the     March for Science. I wish I could better estimate crowd size, but the tremendous turnout in Boston looked to me as follows. At peak attendance, about half of Boston Common was full of standing people. The … Continue reading

The Anti-Intellectual Revolution

  Many times it has been pointed out that the great irony of the internet revolution has been the proliferation of egregious stupidity and mean-spirited neurosis that has followed in its wake. Imagine what intellectuals of centuries past would have thought if you had described for them the basics of … Continue reading

Authoritarian Siren Song Will Play On

I was always a big fan of the Twilight Zone TV show, so I haven’t been as dismayed by the 2016 presidential campaign as many people. But as the surreal extravaganza winds down, some very troubling thoughts come to mind. First we should at least briefly consider the obscene waste … Continue reading

When You Don’t Like Reality, Yell “Hoax!”

From the Boston Marathon Bombing to the Newtown massacre, from Climate Change all the way back to the Holocaust and beyond, if a certain mentality doesn’t like a certain reality, it was all “staged.” We recently marked the third anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing. (Tsarnaev apologized! Did that kill … Continue reading