Contained is a cursory critique of Western Culture, particularly the United States of America, describing why it rose...
When I was growing up, my father often played Paul Simon’s Graceland album on Sunday afternoons. The songs take a musical journey down to the southern United States and across the Atlantic to Africa with the accompaniment of diverse musical groups including Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Years...
When I was a babysitter in college, I once watched the TV news with one of my charges, age 7. The report was on the FBI's raid of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and the deaths that followed. "Why did they burn up all those kids?" the little boy on the couch with me asked. ...
It has become fashionable, following the deaths of famed actors, musicians, sports stars and other celebrities, to magnify their supposed uniqueness and insist that our lives are poorer for their absence, and their like never again will grace our now-further-impoverished mudball. That’s...
Major Media Content Experiment Ends
We will no longer be adding major media content, such as news from the Associated Press, alongside our Thinker content. This will result in the elimination of the "News" content type.
Going forward, we will focus exclusively on Thinker Blogs, Articles, Topics, and Ebooks. Visit our CEO's blog for the thinking behind this change. We want to thank the people of the Associated Press who were very supportive of our ideas and a pleasure to work with.
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