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Mon, August 15, 2022 | 02:57

'What's wrong with the world?'

Sometimes, I catch myself, as I explain to 19 and 20-year-olds what life was like before Al Gore invented the internet. “In my day, if you wanted to read an old newspaper, you had to walk over to the library.” I actually said this.

2022-04-07 15:55

Nam June Paik, climate change and the moon

“We choose to go to the moon” said John F. Kennedy in 1961. In 1969, the United States achieved the first successful Apollo 11 moon landing. And not long ago, Tesla founder Elon Musk announced that he was accepting tourists for his private lunar travel project, “Dear Moon.” Throughout human history and up to the present age, we have looked to the moon as a source of inspirati...

2022-04-06 16:50

How the West enabled war in Ukraine

Contrary to what Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed, and what political scientists like John Mearsheimer believe, NATO enlargement did not cause Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Nor did a sudden descent into irrationality by Putin, who, starting with his Munich Security Conference speech back in 2007, has long telegraphed his irredentist intentions. The key enabler of ...

2022-04-06 16:12

We must fix the nursing shortage

Where did all the nurses go? One of my family members ended up in the ER for a week after a bad fall. The hospital we chose and its staff were wonderful in every way, but this time, one important thing was missing: an appropriate number of nurses to deliver superior care.

2022-04-06 16:10

Will Ukraine war ease US-China tensions?

The Ukraine war has put China in a bind. As a friend of both Russia and Ukraine, China has no desire to pick a side. On the contrary, conventional Chinese wisdom dictates that, when two friends fight each other, the primary objective must be to end the conflict through mediation. While China's balanced stance has aroused more than a little suspicion, it could end up hastening...

2022-04-05 16:10

Men are dying from lack of attention

Recently, a friend showed me a sobering graphic depicting the gender disparity in suicide rates between men and women. While females tend to attempt suicide more often than men (and experience suicidal thoughts more frequently,) males are more “successful” in completing the act.

2022-04-04 16:40

Why China won't mediate end to Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin thought he could quickly capture Kyiv and replace Ukraine's government. Whether he was misled by poor intelligence or by his own fantasies about history, his “smash and grab” failed in the face of effective Ukrainian resistance.

2022-04-03 16:10

Tokyo fancies possible Japan-US-Korea alliance with change of leader in Seoul

South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol shares three common things with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida - conservative leaning, hostility toward North Korea, and a hate-China outlook. This means a possible Fumio-Yoon-Biden security cooperation is already a cause of concern for Beijing.

2022-03-31 16:14

Putin and Xi: brethren of the same spirit

The “blitzkrieg” victory Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin dreamt of in Ukraine clearly did not come true. Being sanctioned and outlawed, the pariah that Russia deserves to be, Vladimir Putin has one last ally he hopes to be able to rely on: the People's Republic of China.

2022-03-31 16:10

America must give Zelenskyy tools he needs

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's recent speech to Congress may not have been the Churchillian moment people had hoped for, but it got the job done. He asked for what his country needed, plainly, simply, and without folding into a grand discourse on the responsibilities of the world's democracies to keep it safe from fascism as the late, great British leader might hav...

2022-03-31 16:09

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